Allen Ruppersberg
25 Oct - 01 Dec 2007
ALLEN RUPPERSBERG
"Alterations"
25 October - 1 December 2007
Allen Ruppersberg belongs to the first generation of American conceptual artists whose works engaged critically with the means and methods of mass media.
Throughout his life, Ruppersberg has developed a complex dialogue on the dialectics of high and low culture, public and private space and the relationship between art works, multiples and everyday objects.
Together with his many-facetted work developed in Los Angeles but also in New York and Europe, Ruppersberg represents a fundamental, pioneering phenomenon in the transatlantic discourse on conceptual art.
Allen Ruppersberg began exhibiting in Europe in 1971 and participated in many of the early landmark conceptual exhibitions, such as Live in Your Head, When Attitudes Become Form (1969), Seth Siegelaub's March 1-31 (1969), and Documenta V (1972).
The exhibition features 9 hanging canvases. All of them present silkscreened texts covered by pages of an agenda book dated from 1951. The original pages of the old agenda book are sewed on the raw canvases while the 'knock-offs', xeroxed copies of the originals, are sewed on the colored dyed canvases.
"Alterations"
25 October - 1 December 2007
Allen Ruppersberg belongs to the first generation of American conceptual artists whose works engaged critically with the means and methods of mass media.
Throughout his life, Ruppersberg has developed a complex dialogue on the dialectics of high and low culture, public and private space and the relationship between art works, multiples and everyday objects.
Together with his many-facetted work developed in Los Angeles but also in New York and Europe, Ruppersberg represents a fundamental, pioneering phenomenon in the transatlantic discourse on conceptual art.
Allen Ruppersberg began exhibiting in Europe in 1971 and participated in many of the early landmark conceptual exhibitions, such as Live in Your Head, When Attitudes Become Form (1969), Seth Siegelaub's March 1-31 (1969), and Documenta V (1972).
The exhibition features 9 hanging canvases. All of them present silkscreened texts covered by pages of an agenda book dated from 1951. The original pages of the old agenda book are sewed on the raw canvases while the 'knock-offs', xeroxed copies of the originals, are sewed on the colored dyed canvases.