Robert Rauschenberg: The Use of Images

October 3rd, 2025 - January 18th, 2026

Fundación Juan March

Castelló, 77. Madrid. Spain

Robert Rauschenberg trusted materials because they connected him to the unknown. The intrinsic characteristics of the elements he experimented with —ceramics, metal supports (copper, stainless or galvanised steel, aluminium, among others)— guided him towards the ultimate goal of his creations: bringing art and life closer together.

Coinciding with the centenary of the artist's birth, and thanks to his writings from the periods when photography played a central role in his creative work, the exhibition aims to understand his entire oeuvre as the result of a practice that was essentially nourished by photography.

Throughout his career, Rauschenberg used and reused images: in the 1950s, those he found published in the media and, from the 1980s onwards, mainly photographs taken by himself.

Six sections show his appropriation of the images over fifty years (1949-1999), motivated by a desire to experiment with a wide range of materials, techniques and disciplines.

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