Henrik Malmström: Retrofitting A Hamburg Nostalgia
These are real people, with real happiness in their lives, and that makes a fool of the reader for prejudging them by their surroundings.
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Henrik Malmström: The Eye Consumes the Body’s Economy
The book by Kominek is nocturnal in every way. Black pages, black endpapers, black outlook, black object, black vision.
Martin Kippenberger: Peinlichkeit Kennt Keine Grenzen (Embarrassment Has No Limits)
History has been kind to Martin Kippenberger. Following his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44, the art world scrambled to retrofit Kippenberger into the Postmodernist canon.
Nostalgia/Trauma Under the STATE Apparatus – Tommaso Tanini
Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, March 2015 ”Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the […]
The Wall Comes Down and Nothing and Everything Happens at Once in Mark Power’s ‘Die Mauer Ist Weg!’
@ Mark Power Then, some American asshole with Christmas lights on his jacket singing a pop song about years of collective trauma and a hangover of cheap products and Stasi disappearances like he knew something, which was clear, he did not. From his leather jacket to his mullet, Hasselhoff represented the anti-Christ of […]
Knowledge of Nazi Terror Fueling Pictorial Banality
Leafing through Van Der Weijde’s Third Reich (part one of his Bavarian trilogy) one is confronted with Nazi Housing constructed in Bavaria during the National Socialist tenancy of German between 1933-1945. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, January 2015 The Dutch Man of Brazil Erik Van Der Weijde’s seeming pre-occupation with architecture and warfare has […]
Werner Amann’s “Surf Fiction” and the Nature of the Game.
We spend merciless hours absorbing film, video, and internet collateral. Amann’s greatest trick with this book is to play on the nature of this game. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, December 2014 Werner Amann’s “Surf Fiction” has landed in my lap at a time when I have been searching for a body of work that […]
JUERGEN TELLER: “Go-Sees” (2000)
from Go-Sees, @ Juergen Teller Made over a twelve-month period, Go-Sees is a collection of photographs that depict the hundreds of women and young girls who called at Teller’s studio for an informal meeting in the hope of securing the modeling contract that would lead to fame, fortune and a life of ‘glamour’. […]
Andreas Gursky and ‘The Iron Cage of Boredom’
The Rhine II, 1999 There is something very straightforward about Andreas Gursky’s photographs. It is as though he holds up a peopled landscape or a building or a workplace for our inspection, saying simply, ‘here it is’. The Iron Cage of Boredom By Julian Stallabrass There is something very straightforward about Andreas Gursky’s photographs. […]
Juergen Teller – “Araki Teller Teller Araki” (2014)
April 4, 2014, Galerie OstLicht: opening ceremony of the show ARAKI TELLER TELLER ARAKI featuring works of two of the most important photographers of our times: Juergen Teller and Nobuyoshi Araki. The exhibition is showing new works conceived for this joint exhibition and entering into an artistic dialogue. Nobuyoshi Araki and Juergen Teller are united […]
Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman Gallery (2014)
Mountain, Anaheim, California, 2013 courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman By Lauren Weinberg for ASX, February 2014 “How should we judge what we see?” It’s a question posed to dramatic effect by a series of mostly large-scale photographs created by the iconic 59 year-old German photographer Thomas Struth, now on view […]
What They Are – A Conversation With Wolfgang Tillmans (2001)
Blushes #28, 2000 “Ever since I started printing in 1990, I’ve been collecting things that went wrong in the darkroom.” By Nathan Kernan, from “What They Are” originally published in Art On Paper, May-Jun 2001 Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968, in Remscheid, Germany, a small town not far from Dusseldorf. He moved to Hamburg after […]