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“You want people to see something that you think is important. And it’s your job as an artist to focus that somehow.” —Allen Ruppersberg
On view now at UCLA’s Hammer Museum is the first major retrospective of the work of Allen Ruppersberg in over 30 years. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 runs at the Hammer through May 12, 2019. Featuring more than 120 works made over the past 50 years, the exhibition includes the artist’s photo works combining text and image, early assemblage sculptures, and his groundbreaking environments Al’s Cafe (1969) and Al’s Grand Hotel (1971), participatory projects that helped put Los Angeles on the map as a center for Conceptual art. This is a not-to-be-missed exhibition whether you are in town for Frieze Los Angeles, or a native Angeleno. In this video the Walker visited Ruppersberg at his studio in El Segundo, California and in the archives of the Walker, where he discusses the role of finding, collecting, and copying various material and ephemera in his work.
