{"id":9551,"date":"2011-06-14T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2011-06-14T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T01:54:10","slug":"sibylle-ruppert-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/14\/sibylle-ruppert-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibylle Ruppert revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Empusae Raptus (1977).<\/em><\/p>\n

Another post about this astonishing artist (I’ll keep talking about her if no one else does…). The pictures here are taken from the catalogue for the 2010 Sibylle Ruppert exhibition at the HR Giger Museum<\/a>, Gruy\u00e8res, Switzerland. Leslie Barany was good enough to send me a copy of this, and the pictures are posted courtesy of the museum. To purchase a copy of the catalogue contact marcowitzig@gigerworkcatalog.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Le Chant de Maldoror (1978).<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking over Sibylle Ruppert’s work this week I’ve been pondering why she wasn’t better known. She was working throughout the 1970s and could easily have been swept up in the vogue for fantastic art when it was being popularised by Omni<\/em> magazine<\/a>. Giger<\/a>, Mati Klarwein<\/a>, Robert Venosa<\/a>, De Es Schwertberger<\/a> and others all benefited from Bob Guccione’s publication, and to a lesser degree from appearances in Heavy Metal<\/em> magazine. Ruppert’s lack of visibility may have been a result of the usual situation whereby women artists were overlooked or marginalised. But I think it’s far more likely that her work was simply too intense and visceral for the newsstands. Giger could get by with paintings like the semi-abstract NY City<\/em><\/a> series which were attached to science fiction stories without causing a stir. It’s difficult to imagine Ruppert’s work gaining such a popular acceptance, especially in the United States where, lest we forget, Giger’s Penis Landscape did<\/a><\/em> cause a stir<\/a> in 1985. One of the great benefits of the web is the way so much previously buried culture is surfacing and finding new and enthusiastic audiences. Sibylle Ruppert’s greatest audience has yet to find her but they’re surely out there, you can’t keep work of this quality buried forever.<\/p>\n

For a few more Ruppert works see that haven of all things grotesque, Monster Brains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Le Spectacle de l\u2019Univers (1977).<\/em><\/p>\n


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Un Archange, une Araign\u00e9e (1977).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ma Soeur mon Epouse (1975).<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Sibylle Ruppert, 1942\u20132011<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Sibylle Ruppert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Empusae Raptus (1977). Another post about this astonishing artist (I’ll keep talking about her if no one else does…). The pictures here are taken from the catalogue for the 2010 Sibylle Ruppert exhibition at the HR Giger Museum, Gruy\u00e8res, Switzerland. Leslie Barany was good enough to send me a copy of this, and the pictures … Continue reading “Sibylle Ruppert revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21,43,44,20],"tags":[2655,2654,720,2652,510,4046,295,2653,509],"class_list":["post-9551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-magazines","category-painting","category-science-fiction","tag-bob-guccione","tag-de-es-schwertberger","tag-hr-giger","tag-hr-giger-museum","tag-lautreamont","tag-maldoror","tag-mati-klarwein","tag-robert-venosa","tag-sibylle-ruppert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2u3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}