Nonsensical Launch: June 9 in Shanghai
by Travis Jeppesen on June 3, 2021
Alice Wang at Capsule
by Travis Jeppesen on June 2, 2021
“[H]istorical and cosmological dimensions beyond the perceptible.”
On Alice Wang’s latest exhibition at Artforum.
Shih Meng Hsin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 5, 2021
“A map can never take the place of the territory.”
On Shih Meng Hsin’s latest Taipei exhibition, in Artforum.
All I Think About is You
by Travis Jeppesen on April 14, 2021
Three of Travis’s works on paper will be featured in “All I Think About is You,” a group exhibition at Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin, curated by artist Michael Mueller. The exhibition runs April 30 – June 26, 2021. More info here.
Reading the Room: On Zhang Enli
by Travis Jeppesen on March 10, 2021
A review of Zhang Enli’s latest exhibition, at Mousse.
The New Weird
by Travis Jeppesen on February 19, 2021
Is it that filmmakers have become so averse to cliché and universalism that they’re willing to jeopardize not only quality but comprehension in their pursuit of novelty and particularity? In fact, such exploits cohere remarkably well with the new world disorder—nothing really makes sense anymore, every day unspools a new web of absurdities. Rather than discard that material on the cutting room floor, why not make it the final cut?
On the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, at Artforum.
Study of Things
by Travis Jeppesen on December 11, 2020
Things are so sexy. That’s because they are dead.
On “Study of Things,” at Guangdong Times Museum, at Artforum.
Clifford Prince King
by Travis Jeppesen on October 5, 2020
“Like a great minimalist storyteller, King derives maximum narrative impact from the smallest gestures and assemblages—hidden ironies mold their pathos. A sense of formal refinement serves as an affective complement to the intimacies the artist so delicately evokes. To the canon of black queer brilliance, King adds the potent splendor of understatement.”
A review of Clifford Prince King’s latest show at Artforum.
Guan Xiao
by Travis Jeppesen on October 1, 2020
We could say that Guan gives us a playful fabulistic modernism, though I prefer to think of it as a neo-monumentality: These are commemorations of a nonreality whose fantastic beings and events seem superior to our own, a “thingdom of gory,” such as James Joyce conceived in Finnegans Wake (1939).
On Guan Xiao’s recent exhibition at Antenna Space, at Artforum.
Caspar
by Travis Jeppesen on September 8, 2020
Sgomento Zurigo is pleased to announce its first exhibition
Caspar
Susan Howe, David Horvitz, Vera Lutz
with a text by Travis Jeppesen
5 pm, September 9th
We look forward to seeing you at the opening!
c/o Dienstgebäude Töpferstrasse 26 8045 Zürich