Juergen Teller
28 Aug - 26 Sep 2015
JUERGEN TELLER
The Clinic
28 August - 26 September 2015
“I got tired of smoking and drinking. This clinic is the best thing I’ve done for my body and for my mind.
For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful
and striking present. He made books out of my Dad’s slide photographs , which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry. Dad killing himself, but seeing in those photographs it was not all dark days and realising what a great photographer he was.
Being in Austria in this clinic, I remembered suddenly all those Austrian holidays
and it made me think of those books my cousin made.”
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present the third solo exhibition with Juergen Teller. The artist lives and works in London.
On 18th September, during „Berlin Art Week“ from 6 until 8 pm, there will be a reception in the gallery space in the presence of the artist.
A catalogue will be published by Snoeck Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition.
"Borrowing more from Dürrenmatt and paraphrasing his idea, I could say that the Teller method could be called “dramaturgical shooting” which the Swiss writer would explain like this: “Dramaturgical thinking (shooting in Teller’s case) can look at the paradox, the inner tension of reality.” Which is what the artist is doing, endlessly looking and capturing the inner tension of reality. The paradox is that no images are at the end ever gratuitous. Each one makes sense. Teller stresses the idea that you can’t remove a piece of the day from the day, otherwise you will end up without the day. Which is not possible unless you choose so and that’s what his father maybe thought at one point.
It would be too much of a short cut to arrive to the conclusion that the images taken at the clinic match Teller’s picture making and hence for his art are a form of cleansing. Teller’s pictures are a way of coming to terms with the possibility – in his case the fact – that at one point we could feel the need to take a piece out of the day and plunge into the space its void has created."
Excerpt from "The Clinic, or Small Miracles and Early Feelings", Francesco Bonami 2015
The Clinic
28 August - 26 September 2015
“I got tired of smoking and drinking. This clinic is the best thing I’ve done for my body and for my mind.
For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful
and striking present. He made books out of my Dad’s slide photographs , which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry. Dad killing himself, but seeing in those photographs it was not all dark days and realising what a great photographer he was.
Being in Austria in this clinic, I remembered suddenly all those Austrian holidays
and it made me think of those books my cousin made.”
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present the third solo exhibition with Juergen Teller. The artist lives and works in London.
On 18th September, during „Berlin Art Week“ from 6 until 8 pm, there will be a reception in the gallery space in the presence of the artist.
A catalogue will be published by Snoeck Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition.
"Borrowing more from Dürrenmatt and paraphrasing his idea, I could say that the Teller method could be called “dramaturgical shooting” which the Swiss writer would explain like this: “Dramaturgical thinking (shooting in Teller’s case) can look at the paradox, the inner tension of reality.” Which is what the artist is doing, endlessly looking and capturing the inner tension of reality. The paradox is that no images are at the end ever gratuitous. Each one makes sense. Teller stresses the idea that you can’t remove a piece of the day from the day, otherwise you will end up without the day. Which is not possible unless you choose so and that’s what his father maybe thought at one point.
It would be too much of a short cut to arrive to the conclusion that the images taken at the clinic match Teller’s picture making and hence for his art are a form of cleansing. Teller’s pictures are a way of coming to terms with the possibility – in his case the fact – that at one point we could feel the need to take a piece out of the day and plunge into the space its void has created."
Excerpt from "The Clinic, or Small Miracles and Early Feelings", Francesco Bonami 2015