The Zurich-based artist, musician, DJ and graphic designer A. C. Kupper collects images, both his own and appropriated. The source of the Internet with its collection of private spheres made public and the abundance of images in art books, print media and film is inexhaustible. A. C. Kupper uses the images as raw material that is manipulated on the computer and, in combination and fusion, becomes a mutated image of reality.
The large-format photographs are aesthetically composed. The artist uses cultural codes and striking symbols that have long since entered the mainstream, pop culture and advertising. In “Revolutionäre Mittelklasse” (Revolutionary Middle Class), modern humankind appears as a being without identity, without gender and without history. The distorted faces are eerie, empty and unintentionally comical in their tragedy. A. C. Kupper’s imagery is a vision of a society that is gradually becoming alienated and moronic, which has lost its humanity, passion and sexual identity. Mediocrity, the revolution of the middle class, is the disturbingly pessimistic vision of the future of a world without pain and feeling, the haunting of propagated normality through conformity.
On the occasion of the vernissage of his exhibition, A.C. Kupper presents the fresh Zurich band Mr Soul, with musicians Lukas Müller and Arthur Fornallaz, followed by Zurich DJ legend Kay-Zee spinning the turntables.