This artist’s book, created by Juergen Teller himself together with his wife and creative partner Dovile Drizyte, tells the story of the most intimate and personal project of the famous photographer: through an excursus on the last years of his human and artistic journey, Teller offers the public a private diary that opens up to the external gaze. A gallery of photographs that focuses on the recent artistic renewal of Teller, which for seven and a half years has been enriched by the partnership with Dovile Drizyte, with whom the photographer shares an intense expressive research. «We’ve spent every single day of the last seven and a half years together, Dovile and I. We got married, we gave birth to our daughter Iggy, we worked and did everything together, as a couple. Every morning I prepare coffee for us. […] Every morning I wake up with a smile on my face, make coffee and start working», writes Juergen Teller, and in these pages you can breathe the human dimension of these vivid, throbbing, imperfect shots, which uproot and overturn any convention of gender, shape and gaze.

The catalogue accompanies the exhibition Juergen Teller 7 ½, curated by Mario Codognato and set up in the wonderful spaces of the Palazzo Giardino di Sabbioneta (Mantua): Teller’s photographs dialogue with the Galleria degli Antichi, among the most extensive in Italy with its length of over 95 metres, and the Hall of Mirrors, a large frescoed room historically used for court parties.

Participate in the presentation of the volume with Juergen Teller
Tuesday, September 2, 11:30 am
Berggruen Arts & Culture, Palazzo Diedo (Venice)
The event is free and has a limited capacity, while seats last.

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