“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.

Within the context of LOOP and the OFF-LOOP festival in Barcelona and in the frame of Planet Stories, ProjecteSD has programed the screening of two video/film works in connection with Ruppersberg’s current show:

Dora García: Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed, 2008. Lenght: 60′. Screebibg in ProjecteSD during gallery hours the following days: November 15, 16, 19 and 20. On Saturday November 16 at 12.30h, the screening will be introduced by the author, Dora García.

Wallace Berman: Aleph, 1956-1966. Lenght: 8′. Screening in ProjecteSD on gallery hours one only day, November 21. Coinciding with the closing date of the exhibition Planet Stories, Berman’s screening will be commented by artist Patricia Dauder, on November 21 at 18.30h.