Review

Alexander Binder: Glass Delusion and the Prism of Photographic Mysticism

“It is thus, my most coveted photography book of the year in its qualification as unspeakable language and the glory of the potentially transcendental image.”

True Romance – Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles

Romance is inescapable; the L.A. river is maybe the most romantic strip of concrete in the world, the light in the window of a Todd Hido exterior is romantic, just the name “Dennis Hopper” is romantic; romance is inherent to the image. By Owen Campbell, ASX, July 2015 Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles […]

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.

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty Glossy/Dangerous

Blue Poles, 2007. Enamel on metal, 60 x 72 inches Medusa was in various forms of legend alternately beautiful and hideous; a telling difference, in that it suggests either extreme is equally liable to turn a man to stone. The words Pretty/Dirty, the title of Marilyn Minter’s current exhibition at Contemporary Arts Museum […]

Aaron Krach’s Suicidal Literature: The Sun Also Sets

Aaron Krach’s book, ‘The Author of This Book Committed Suicide’, is something of a meditation on the matter of suicide.

Massimiliano Rezza’s ‘ATEM’: The Art of Images Without Meaning

‘ATEM’ is to use photographs for what they really are, non-representational epitaphs of moments rendered in silver with little meaning.

Girls, Rain and Nightclub Haiku: César Ordóñez and ‘Tokyo Blur

Presented as a trip through Tokyo, perhaps even snapshots of one wild night out, Tokyo Blur shows the reader a clear view from a back-row seat.

‘Mess-aesthetics’ and Absurdist Life Collages in Beni Bischof’s ‘Psychobuch’

It could be said that Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol have created a bastard child where trash and glitter are king of the streets, but have moved into the studio for the purposes of re-creating consumer waste in artistic practice. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, June 2015 Beni Bischof’s a product of his generation. His […]

William Klein’s Tokyo Pop

William Klein was invited to Tokyo in 1961, where he shot for three months and made more than 1,000 pictures.

Torbjørn Rødland: ‘Sasquatch Century’ – Pathology of a Sacred Striptease

Theirs will be a genetic lineage where Eden’s vast land has been bulldozed over for that of another Wal-Mart parking lot where their future generations will congregate to buy house paint while sipping numbness-inducing frozen latte’s from the Starbucks within. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, June 2015 It, to him, presents a stranglehold […]

The Enemy Today: ‘Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men’

For the authors Feuerhelm and Salu, theirs’ is an act of frustration at our willingness to sit back and be spoon-fed bullshit while behind us a cartoon mouse holds a gun to our head. By Poppy Coles, June 2015 This book reads as an unrelenting portrait of “the enemy” today. Using the historic […]

Deutsche Börse 2015, what’s the point?

This is an exhibition that strives to be down with the Zeitgeist, digging the first album; this is an exhibition that, like, totally gets it.