Allen Ruppersberg

Allen Ruppersberg ( born May 1, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, lives in Los Angeles, California and in New York City ) is an American conceptual artist. Ruppersberg belongs to the first generation of American Conceptual artists, his forms of expression and artistic works include paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books.

Life and work

Allen Ruppersberg graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts) in 1967 from.

During his early years in Los Angeles, he began intensive relationships with artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman and Allan McCollum build.

Allen Ruppersberg participated in the major Harald Szeemann exhibition When Attitudes Become Form 1969 in Bern in part. Since the late 1960s, his work has been shown in over sixty solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions. You are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam and Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, and many others.

Highlights of his career, were participating in the Whitney Biennial (1970, 1975, 1991), in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department Idea Idea / Light ( 1972), Lyon Biennale (1997), and the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster ( 1997). In 1985, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles organized a major exhibition of Ruppersberg's work, which was later shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Allen Ruppersberg philosophy is to help the language as a means of expression to their own right. His art deals with the various sectors and phenomena of mass media and illuminates the consumer society from a critical perspective.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archiv (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
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