“Men and Women” by Juergen Teller
032c Workshop / Joerg Koch is pleased to present “Men and Women,” an exhibition of new works by photographer JUERGEN TELLER. Three series of portraits were selected for display in the space’s vitrine: two, shown here for the first time, deal with the masculine image, the coming into being and disappearance of a virility; a third, photographed in 2009, contrasts these portrayals with a feminine power. Teller’s five year-old son, Ed, poses as he lifts weights, runs on a treadmill and spins on a stationary bike at a hotel gym in the Maldives in late 2010. Next to Teller’s inheritor, we find his ostensible forebear: William Eggleston, pioneer of American color photography, now seventy-one. Photographed at his home in Memphis, also in 2010, Eggleston, too, gesticulates, balancing a drink in one hand as he plays “air piano” with the other. Between these two polar generations of male expression presides a serene Vivienne Westwood, portrayed in the nude as she reclines on a divan, timeless and smiling.
Born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964, Juergen Teller has been living and working in London since 1986. Fiercely reluctant to separate his autobiographical, documentary work from his commercial fashion credits, he has exhibited at such venues as the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Wien and the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, while cultivating longstanding relationships with designers Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, and Helmut Lang, among others. “Men and Women” is Teller’s first show at the 032c Workshop, and marks the inauguration of our “Vitrinen” series, dedicated to the showcasing of new or unpublished artworks.
032c Workshop / Joerg Koch is an exhibition space in Berlin. Centered around an eight-meter-long vitrine designed by Konstantin Grcic, its programming features several exhibition series, exploring the idea of the archive, the auteur, or the unseen.
