Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Forbes reviews the Hammer Museum's exhibition
This major retrospective on the work of Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg (b. 1944, Cleveland) marks the artist’s first comprehensive US survey in over 30 years. Many of the works included, from private and public collections in Europe and elsewhere, have never before been exhibited in US museums.
"Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized – until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has been that as LA continued to rise in prominence as a 21rst Century hub for creativity and art, its cultural institutions have looked back to reclaim and re-conceive the historical importance of Los Angeles to contemporary Art.
This began in earnest with Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. This 2011-2012 Getty-sponsored sprawling collaboration of art exhibitions at over 60 cultural institutions across Southern California made a persuasive case for the contribution LA-based artists had on post World War Two Art. It was a revelation."— , April 9, 2019
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