Robert Rauschenberg created Minutiae as a stage set for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's premiere of a dance by the same name. Composed of paint, collage elements, found objects, and fabric, Minutiae featured open construction that allowed dancers to interact both in and around the sculpture. Rauschenberg's first freestanding combine, Minutiae initiated the artist’s ten-year collaboration with the dance company and instigated his own emerging sculpture practice. The final segment of our #LeapLookLearn Periscope series explores this work—so tune in tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. to learn more!
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 closes this Sunday. Robert Rauschenberg, Minutiae, 1954 (1974 replica). Oil, paper, fabric, newspaper, wood, metal, plastic, mirror, and string on wood structure. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection, Gift of Jay F. Eckland, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation, Dorothy Lichtenstein, MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, Goodale Family Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine, and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.