Ahead of his conference at ECAL on February 11, 2015, the artist and photographer Juergen Teller visited Fine Arts Master students at their studio, to answer their questions and discuss their works. A group of photography students also participated in this masterclass.
Born in Erlangen (Germany) in 1964, Juergen Teller studied at Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, before moving to London in 1986. He is known to navigate between art and commercial photography, blurring the boundaries between his commissioned works and more personal images. He has published over thirty artist books and he exhibits internationally, with solo shows at venues including the Photographers' Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Kunsthalle Vienna and Fondation Cartier in Paris. His photographs are regularly published in magazines such as POP, Die Zeit, 032c, Purple, Self Service and W Magazine. He also collaborates with numerous brands among which Céline, Helmut Lang, Louis Vuitton, Marc jacobs, and Vivienne Westwood.
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MA FINE ARTS
by Alessandra Ghiazza
In the empty spaces I find pieces of dreams fields and water, of the forgotten green. A stratification of memories that leads to reveal experiences in natural landscapes, real but also places suspended between memory and the dreamlike, creating through geometric and repetitive shapes a space of contemplation on places, to find them again; postcards of a fragile and continuously changing landscape.
MA FINE ARTS
by Axel Mattart
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MA FINE ARTS
by Camila Polania
Some say the body arrives first, and the soul takes longer. This installation begins with that delay, in the tension between presence and absence. Instructions of Rematriation is a video installation projected onto a wind-moved fabric, a surface that never fully settles. In front, white Rimax chairs evoke everyday spaces of waiting across Latin America: porches, patios, sidewalks. The work follows the passing of a single day, tracing the slow return to the body after displacement. Through video, writing, textile, and sound, the installation holds a kind of return, not geopolitical, but personal and ancestral: a political and spiritual reconnection with what was once left behind.
MA FINE ARTS
by Giorgio Cassano
ZONA DI SACRIFICIO is a film study that fuses documentary, ethnography, and poetic montage around the Fiume Tara—Taranto’s revered “miracle river.” Through a tapestry of memories, legends, visions, and personal testimonies, the film explores how this sacred source has sustained local identity and resilience, even as the encroachment of the ILVA steelworks has turned the surrounding landscape into a literal “sacrifice zone.” It is both a visual elegy to a once-pure watercourse and a poignant reflection on environmental violence, tracing the uneasy coexistence of spiritual reverence and industrial devastation in a community striving to reclaim its voice.
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by Ludovico Orombelli
Sinopia is the culmination of a research project carried out at ECAL on the techniques and images that have shaped the Western imaginary. A scene from The "Legend of the True Cross", painted in the 15th century, has been reproduced using the same materials that its author, Piero della Francesca, employed to sketch the preparatory drawing on the wall before completing it in paint. The image thus reappears in its earliest phase, as a ghostly presence that invites us to reflect on the presence and role of the past within our present time.