Juergen Teller: MACHO opened on Friday, 20 June, 7.30 pm at the DESTE Foundation. The exhibition will run until 29 October.

Under the ironic title MACHO, Teller, a photographer whose practice makes the debate about the boundaries between art and fashion obsolete, will be showing for the first time in Greece a highly introspective body of work.

Teller has never been one to shy away from capturing in his peculiarly informal and often humorous pictures the plainness and beauty, averageness and extraordinariness, hardness and fragility of the human being. As a result, he is one of the few photographers who have elevated fashion photography to a new kind of artistic expression. His work, when it first appeared in magazines, was a revelation, expressing a new kind of authentic style, which has since been much imitated.
He is perhaps the first photographer to present his work in very different contexts without ever compromising his unique style, whether shooting for advertising campaigns, fashion editorials, billboards, magazines that found their way into the homes of a wide audience, or for exhibitions in art venues around the world. “I am just producing works and try to find channels where I can express myself,” Teller remarks: “It may be a magazine, poster, book, or billboard… whether it is art or photography, I really don’t care.”
Teller, one of the iconic photographers of his generation, entered the London photography scene through his work on music album covers. He is the author of famous portraits of such music icons as Kurt Cobain, Bjorg, and Sinéad O’Connor, who was photographed by Teller for the cover of her single Nothing Compares 2 You. Numerous celebrities feature in his work for major fashion designers, while his photographs have been published in fashion magazines and shown in many museums around the world. He has published more than twenty monographs of his work.

Source: deste.gr