ProjecteSD is opening the season with the exhibition Accrochage #1: Allen Ruppersberg et al., a group exhibition with its focus on ce-lebrated North American artist Allen Ruppersberg. The artist‘s first appearance in ProjecteSD was in the context of the exhibtion series The Umbrella Corner. An exhibition in 6 chapter curated by Moritz Küng in 2013. The last chapter of these shows culminated with a Ruppersberg solo presentation. We are glad to annouce a new instance of this ongoing collaboration with the artist presenting now an iconic work, As the crow flies over the horizon (2008-2016).

The work is an installation of 23 colourful overlapping laminated posters with printed text bearing the names of famous “avant-garde” artists with birth dates and death dates and different combinations of the pronouns “me” and “you”. Ruppersberg’s uses for this work the famous Colby posters, printed by Los Angeles’s Colby Poster Printing Co., that after serving and inspiring many artists for decades, shut down in 2012. Multicoloured, with unexpected gradients of flashy, typically Californian colours, covered with outrageously bold characters that with its heavy, sans-serif typeface do not respect any typographical rules, the Colby posters have become Ruppers-berg’s signature since the 1980’s.