Archive for the “Sculpture” category
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 (…)
VILE: A Note on Jeff Koons Versailles
by Travis Jeppesen on October 19, 2008
The mainstream media’s recent attempts at writing off the critics of Jeff Koons’s Versailles exhibition as “conservative” miss a simple point: Jeff Koons is probably the worst living artist, if not one of the worst artists who ever lived. This (…)
Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 6, 2008
If minimal art has any importance, it’s in making us notice things that we wouldn’t otherwise. Ayse Erkmen has this figured out. She gives us an art that is barely there. What is it that Gertrude Stein once wrote – (…)
One to Watch Out For: Karla Black
by Travis Jeppesen on September 12, 2008
There’s a great essay by Jonathan Griffin in the latest issue of Frieze on Karla Black, an artist previously unknown to me. Check out images of her recent sculpture There Can Be No Arguments, courtesy of Mary Mary Gallery: A (…)
