»Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing« fascinates in New York

»Channel Surfing« focuses on the last three decades of Rauschenberg's work, which were strongly influenced by the development of global media. Within a short time, first the visual imagery of the television, and then additionally that of the Internet, dominated people's everyday lives. Rauschenberg, who worked creatively until his death in 2008, allowed himself to be influenced by the new visual experiences associated with globalization. He depicted the power of art to promote cultural exchange, just as he drew attention to dangers such as oil crises.

After years, Rauschenberg returned to painting, now in combination with photography, sculpture and, in some cases, materials that were unusual for painting, such as galvanized steel or polylaminate. Giving paintings a new, self-reliant direction, making them independent of narrative in the face of the power of television, and letting them emerge from within themselves, was his concern.

In the course of new technologies, which had always interested Rauschenberg, he also processed his own early work, which was reinvented and thus updated. Rauschenberg, as a young artist multi-layered and not really belonging to any style, held on to this way of working, always close to current world events, until the end.