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The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum has chosen to pay homage to the late artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died in May 2008, with a temporary exhibition of 60 works from his series Gluts, eleven years after the museum''s first retrospective on the artist.

The temporary exhibit, opening on Friday and remaining available for viewing until 12th September, is an enlarged version of collections which were previously showing in the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice (Italy) and the Tinguely in Basle (Switzerland).

"Presenting the works of Rauschenberg in Bilbao once against, especially from the Gluts series, after more than a decade is not only a privilege for our public, but is also the way in which the Guggenheim museums, with whom Rauschenberg always maintained a close relationship, pay homage to the late artist," confirmed Guggenheim Bilbao Director, Juan Ignacio Vidarte.

Rauschenberg, born in Texas in 1925, began work on his Gluts series in the mid-1980s as a reaction to the feelings inspired in him on seeing the amount of objects, from cars to barrels, that were simply abandoned following the closure of several businesses in his home state owing to a crisis in industrial oil.