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    Collages, 17 parts
    Framed: 82,5 x 57,5 x 3 cm each
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    Installation view: Planet Stories, ProjecteSD, 2019
    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Collages, 17 parts
    Framed: 82,5 x 57,5 x 3 cm each
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    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Collages, 17 parts
    Framed: 82,5 x 57,5 x 3 cm each
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    Installation view: Planet Stories, ProjecteSD, 2019
    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Collages, 17 parts
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    Installation view: Planet Stories, ProjecteSD, 2019
    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Collages, 17 parts
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    Installation view: Planet Stories, ProjecteSD, 2019
    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Collages, 17 parts
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    Installation view: Planet Stories, ProjecteSD, 2019
    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
  • Suggested Watch List, 2019 | | ProjecteSD

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    Collage
    98 x 73 cm
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    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
  • Installation view: Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2018 | | ProjecteSD

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    Central work: Portrait of my parents, 1972
    Acrylic on canvas, 183 x 183 cm
    Photo: Galen Fletcher
  • Installation view: Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2019 | | ProjecteSD

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    Central work: Greetings from California, 1972
    Acrylic on canvas, 167,3 x 167,6 cm
    Photo: Jeff McLane
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    Photo: Adrienne Fox
  • As the Crow Flies Over the Horizon, 2008 – 2016 | | ProjecteSD

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    23 laminated posters
    56 x 36 cm each
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    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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  • Where’s Al? Part II – The Sequel, 1997 | | ProjecteSD

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    Mixed media, 135 elements
    Wall installation: 96 photographs, ca. 150 x 570 cm
    Table: 96 photographs, 17 archival cards, 12 film script versions, 5 annotations, 4 books, 1 magazine, 90 x 220 cm
    Ed. 3

    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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    Photo: Frances Daniel
  • The Rise of L.A., 2012 | | ProjecteSD

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    3 record - multiples on wooden shelf, DVD video on monitor
    Each record - multiple: 21 x 31,5 cm
    Ed. 3

    Photo: Roberto Ruiz
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  • The New Five Foot Shelf, 2001 | | ProjecteSD

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    44 photo posters, 50 books, table
    Installation view, Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2019
    Photo: Jeff McLane
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    Graphite on paper, 5 panels, each 68,6 x 155 cm
    Installation view: Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Walker Art Center, 2018
    Photo: Galen Fletcher
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    Marker on canvas in 20 parts, each 183 x 183 cm
    Installation view: Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Walker Art Center, 2018
    Photo: Galen Fletcher
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    Documentation from Al's cafe interior
    Courtesy of Allen Ruppersberg

    Photo: Gary Krueger
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    Courtesy of Allen Ruppersberg

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    Newspapers from various cities, card table, tablecloth, folding chair. Dimension variable
    Installation view: When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. Fondazione Prada, Venice, 2013
    Photo: Attilio Maranzano

Biography

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1944
Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles, USA

Ruppersberg graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He began as a painter but quickly abandoned oil and canvas in favor of projects that were about language, pictures, books, and ideas. His love for images and texts led him to gather thousands of books, postcards, photographs, magazines, slides, posters, and a large collections of industrial and educational films from 1931-1967. For an artist interested in the cultural mythologies, narratives, and common truths of everyday life, this collection of materials, featuring mostly items from American popular culture of the mid 20th century, has frequently served as fertile source material in his work. Together with John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler or Lawrence Weiner Ruppersberg belongs to the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about.

 

 

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  • 27 September — 16 November 2019
    Planet Stories

    “If you live long enough you begin to see
    the endings of the things in which you saw the beginnings”
    Allen Ruppersberg

    Los Angeles was the city of Allen Ruppersberg’s beginnings in the late 1960’s. He graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute (later Cal Arts) in 1967 and had his first solo exhibition at the legendary Eugenia Butler gallery in 1969. This same year he attracted wide critical attention when he opened Al’s Café. When Harald Szeemann invited him to participate in Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, and then included him in Documenta 5 three years later, Ruppersberg’s stature as a young conceptual artist was established. All along five decades, Ruppersberg has developed his unique voice in conceptual art. He is an avid collector, a vernacular anthropologist that has spent years amassing an immense trove of postcards, educational films, magazines, posters, comic books, obituaries, newspaper clippings, records, objects and ephemera of all sorts. This archive serves as a regular resource for the artist, who tirelessly draws, copies, classifies, rearranges and recycles elements in the making of his works. As he himself has stated: “The idea of rearranging my life and the work is an ongoing subject.” Language is a key element in Ruppersberg work.

  • 03 May — 27 July 2013
    The Umbrella Corner. Chapter 6
  • 01—28 February 2023
    PROJECTESD: 2003 – 2023
  • 30 August — 17 September 2016
    ACCROCHAGE #1: Allen Ruppersberg et Al.

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