01 Jul 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Installation art-works analyzed, Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, “Gift for Apollo”, 1959 It is very difficult for us today even to imagine how much delight our ancestors were getting by imagining the very existence and life of gods. Mythology opened for them not just alternatives to their world, but the possibilities of completely different worlds. People identified with what their imagination […]
09 Jun 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Installation art-works analyzed, Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, “Pail for Ganymede”, 1959 The more we drown in technology the farther we are from natural grace (we have learned to see metal where our ancestors saw rivers and sea waves). To be a mechanic or an engineer (“trainers” and “trainees” of engines) means already not to be a human being as Ganymede […]
03 Jun 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Installation art-works analyzed, Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, “Money Thrower for Tinguely’s H.T.N.Y.”, 1960 (Electric heater with gun powder, metal springs, twine and silver dollars) Behind many technological novelties we (instead of seeing angelic faces of the inventors in eyeglasses who are moved by pure disinterested curiosity) find money calculations, and even where we find idealistic motives, technological idolatry or moral […]