Archive for the “Reviews” category
Diane Arbus
by Travis Jeppesen on August 27, 2012
“Arbus was the photographer America never wanted, but always deserved. She was the first to show us what’s wrong with the country in a non-documentary way. It’s difficult to imagine how subsequent dissident clickers of the country’s uglier private reaches (…)
TransLife in Beijing
by Travis Jeppesen on August 19, 2011
I guess there’s not much left to say, at this point. After all, criticism stops as soon as the only question left to be asked is whether art is fulfilling its social responsibilities.
Wim Delvoye in Beijing
by Travis Jeppesen on June 27, 2011
The emergent church of Wim Delvoye is one that attempts to unearth the basest ethos of a tormented, corporeal Catholicism, while simultaneously debunking all that is considered holy in the secular world. My review of Wim Delvoye’s show is now (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
Bruce Benderson and Gary Indiana and Eileen Myles
by Travis Jeppesen on April 26, 2011
It doesn’t matter; there is no matter. Memory doesn’t spit out physical objects, all pristine and shiny. If there is such a thing as a truth in writing, about writing, then it’s always located in the roughness around the edges. (…)
Identity Drag
by Travis Jeppesen on May 1, 2010
With the advent of post-structuralist philosophy and the spread of issue-based political activism in the latter half of the 20th century, the problem of identity arguably emerged as the most pressing ideological issue of the Zeitgeist. While it also enabled (…)
Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
by Travis Jeppesen on January 18, 2010
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in her (…)
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 (…)
The Art of Two Germanys
by Travis Jeppesen on January 10, 2010
My review of The Art of Two Germanys just went online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
