Archive for the “Photography” category

John Miller in Cologne

by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011

Miller’s work is always defined by a certain effortlessness at crossing the cerebral with the visual. In this, he is more motivated by his subject matter than any one particular mode of expression or conceptual framework. The result is that (…)

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Attila Richard Lukacs at Johnen Galerie, Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on June 1, 2011

The resurgent emergence of the Polaroid photograph as a proper medium in and of itself throughout the last decade can, I believe, be attributed to a social anxiety surrounding the increasing digitalization of practically every vital sphere. The Polaroid inevitably (…)

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Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

by Travis Jeppesen on January 15, 2010

A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work (…)

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British Art Now

by Travis Jeppesen on December 5, 2009

My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.

Nan Goldin in Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on October 28, 2009

“As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs.” My review of Nan Goldin’s current (…)

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Mat Collishaw

by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2009

“Now that postmodernism is beginning to appear an almost retro stance, it is artists like Collishaw, who interrogates histories through the disparate prisms of technologies recent and refurbished, that demonstrate how to make it new in even newer ways.” My (…)

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Ricarda Roggan

by Travis Jeppesen on October 7, 2009

My review of Ricarda Roggan’s current Berlin show is now online at Artforum.

Federico Forlani

by Travis Jeppesen on September 22, 2009

Federico Forlani is one of a new breed of young Italian artists working in photography who, through an inventive configuration of the diaristic and the theatrical, explores the limitations of the self. With great sensitivity towards his subjects, which often (…)

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TONIGHT: Luigi y Luca opening at Artbar, Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on August 15, 2009

Photography always tells us more about its subjects than they might wish to reveal. In this sense, it is different from the other arts, in that it serves as a collaboration between the artist and the medium. Luigi y Luca (…)

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Tomorrow: SLUM @ Ficken3000, Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on August 5, 2009

The creators of PORK are pleased to announce the creation of an exciting new nightlife concept for Berlin. Beginning on August 6th, every Thursday night, Ficken3000 will be transformed into SLUM. SLUM aims to unite all of Berlin’s disparate artistic, (…)

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