Posts Tagged “Artforum”

On Haroon Mirza

by Travis Jeppesen on December 1, 2019

The new century has brought with it forms of colonialism wholly unimagined, and unimaginable, by generations prior. The obscenest of these is the accelerated colonization of the imagination itself, of thought and perception. In such a scenario, “politics” can serve (…)

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Berlinale 2013

by Travis Jeppesen on March 5, 2013

My summing-up of this year’s Berlinale can be read at Artforum in two parts: here and here.

Best of 2012…

by Travis Jeppesen on January 1, 2013

Joan Mitchell, Hai Bo, and Chris Kraus. Over at Artforum.  

Andrej Dubravsky

by Travis Jeppesen on October 2, 2012

“This is the place where the narcissism of youth—and especially this generation of youth—melts in the face of the artist’s chief tendency, which is that of expressionism; for what else is expression if not the sacrifice of the self at (…)

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Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza

by Travis Jeppesen on October 18, 2011

  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 (…)

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Sol LeWitt & Martin Eder in Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on April 22, 2010

My review of the Sol LeWitt show can now be read at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. And at Artforum, there’s a review of the Martin Eder exhibition.

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 (…)

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Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on November 19, 2009

My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.

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 (…)

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Ricarda Roggan

by Travis Jeppesen on October 7, 2009

My review of Ricarda Roggan’s current Berlin show is now online at Artforum.