Archive for the “Photography” category
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 (…)
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 (…)
Alexandra Ranner @ Loock Galerie, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on July 10, 2009
Alexandra Ranner is showing a series of photos of lonely, desolate rooms. Rooms that almost appear as though they were never intended for human inhabitance. Or, that they have been abandoned and sealed away, their forsaken state having yet to (…)
Gilbert & George @ Artforum.com
by Travis Jeppesen on July 5, 2009
My review of Gilbert & George’s current Berlin exhibition is now online.
Jacqueline Brown @ STYX Project Space, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 25, 2009
In her first solo exhibition, Jacqueline Brown uses drawings, photography, sound, and video to compose a sort of exercise in landscape autobiography. Mining the flora and fauna of the English countryside around Devon, where the young artist spent her childhood, (…)
Thiago Rocha Pitta at Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2008
Notes on an Island Shipwreck is a simple project exploring the polar motifs of land and sea. Thiago Rocha Pitta is restrained in his approach, and the exhibition is well thought-out, though not extraordinary. The centerpiece, Project for a Stormy (…)
