Five new editions by Robert Rauschenberg will be on view at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl from June 4 through August 16, 1996.
Entitled Speculations, these bold and oclorful new prints demonstrate the artist's continued exploration of new ways to incorporate his own photography into printmaking. The prints were made in the Los Angeles-based artists' workshop, Gemini G.E.L., where Rauschenberg traveled to with a selection of color photographs printed on a Iris printer in his Captiva, Florida studio. To create the master for each of the five new editions, he cut the photographs into various shapes and sizes. Using a paint brush, he then applied water to paper in the area where he wanted the imagery, laid the iris prints onto the wet paper and put both through the litho press to transfer the imagery. The Gemini workshop made color separations from the five masters which were used in screenprinting the editions.
