Archive for the “Sculpture” 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 (…)
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 (…)
Rainer Fetting
by Travis Jeppesen on November 13, 2009
My review of Rainer Fetting’s Berlin exhibition, which briefly appeared here a few days ago, is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Ceal Floyer at Kunst-Werke
by Travis Jeppesen on September 14, 2009
My review of Ceal Floyer’s solo exhibition at Kunst-Werke is now online at Artforum.
Stéphane Pencréac’h @ FRISCH
by Travis Jeppesen on July 28, 2009
My review of Pencréac’h’s current Berlin exhibition is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
WHITE TRASH DUMMIES
by Travis Jeppesen on July 3, 2009
On a recent trip to Paris, I was lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Duane Hanson, whose work I’ve long admired in reproduction but seldom seen in actuality. The sculptures most people and I know best stem from the (…)
Terence Koh @ Peres Projects
by Travis Jeppesen on June 3, 2009
Those of us who have watched Terence Koh’s meteoric rise with grotesque fascination have always wondered how the inevitable obverse process would measure up to the hype spectacle. His current exhibition indicates that the fall will be swift and dismal. (…)
Political/Minimal
by Travis Jeppesen on January 21, 2009
My review of Political/Minimal, the current group exhibition at KunstWerke, is now online at WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
Deflated: Jeff Koons in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on December 9, 2008
The two Jeff Koons solo exhibitions currently on in Berlin – one a retrospective of the sculptures, the other a show of new paintings – confirm that Koons is the worst living artist anywhere. Koons is a sort of con (…)
Richard Serra at Gagosian Britannia
by Travis Jeppesen on November 8, 2008
The philosophical rigidity of Richard Serra’s sculptures stands for raw endurance. They last, they extend themselves past momentary interpretations, and yet they are not momentous; rather they nearly pass as organic forms. One at Gagosian is a vaginal maze that (…)