Raymond Pettibon
Kunsthalle Bern
This exhibition brought together a large selection of Raymond Pettibon’s work from the past eight years: primarily the pen-and-ink drawings for which he is best known but also his less familiar paintings, collages, artist books, videos, and fanzinelike booklets. The drawings, which combine fragments of text with images culled from American popular and underground culture, dominated the exhibition, due in part to the sheer number of them and in part to the appeal of familiar images drawn in a simple graphic style. They were grouped together in clusters of twenty or more, either framed, pinned