Allen Ruppersberg

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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 , graphics , photographs , sculptures , installations and books.

life and work

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

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

Allen Ruppersberg took part in the important Harald Szeemann exhibition When Attitudes Become Form 1969 in Bern . Since the late 1960s, his work has been shown in over sixty solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group shows. They are in the permanent collections of museums around the world, 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.

The highlights of his artistic career were participation in the Whitney Biennale (1970, 1975, 1991), Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Idea + Idea / Light department (1972), the 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 language as a means of expression to its own right. His art deals with the various sectors and phenomena of the mass media and illuminates consumer society from a critical perspective.

Literature and Sources

  • Documenta 5. Survey of Reality, Imagery Today. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Material, the presentation of the visual worlds and the artists. Volume 2: List of the exhibited works, the presented situations, the expected events, their nature, their manufacturers and owners, their organizers. General bibliography. Guide through the Exhibition. ). Documenta ua, Kassel 1972, ISBN 3-570-02856-9 (in ring binder).
  • Roland Nachtigäller , Friedhelm Scharf, Karin Stengel (eds.): Resubmission d5. A survey of the archive on Documenta 1972 (= series of publications of the documenta archive. Vol. 8). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Ruppersberg, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio , USA