Overview
- The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation announced the donation on Tuesday that it has given three sculptures from the artist’s Gluts series to Artist Rooms, the joint collection managed by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland.
- The donated works are G‑I Glut (1986), Rasputin’s Revenge Early Winter Glut (1987), and Mobile Cluster Glut (Neapolitan) (1987), all made from salvaged gas-station and automobile metal.
- The three sculptures will appear at Tate Modern as part of a free display of more than 25 Rauschenberg works opening on September 20, 2026, with the show running through the end of 2027.
- Artist Rooms was created from the 2008 d'Offay arrangement that placed a major collection in shared care by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, and the institutions’ later severing of ties with Anthony d'Offay in 2020 remains part of the collection’s provenance context.
- By adding the Gluts to Artist Rooms, Tate and the Foundation aim to expand regional access to the works through Artist Rooms’ loan program and to foreground Rauschenberg’s critique of waste and value when museums place found industrial materials on public view.