Each artist interprets air and space differently and through their own experience and through their own eyes."
Rauschenberg and the Moon Museum
A temporary exhibition titled The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight features 30 works by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg.
The display highlights his fascination with aviation and his collaboration with curator James Dean.
Asked what work of art he wished he had created, Rauschenberg once replied: "I would have liked to have been around to help the Wright brothers work on their concept of flying bicycles."
Dean strongly supported the artist. In a 1969 letter featured in the exhibition, Dean wrote to Rauschenberg: "Everything was just beautiful.
You are exactly right for today (and tomorrow, too)."
The exhibition also includes a thumbnail-sized ceramic wafer known as the Moon Museum.
Organized by sculptor Forrest Myers, this tiny tile features drawings by artists including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Rauschenberg himself.
Rauschenberg contributed a single pencil line to the wafer. Russo says: "What does that line mean?
From here to eternity. But also, when Rauschenberg approached his empty canvasses, he often just started with a pencil line.
It’s almost like the same thing here."
In 1969, a duplicate of this tile was attached to the Apollo 12 lunar module.
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It remains on the lunar surface, serving as the most distant piece of art ever created.
