JUERGEN TELLER – IRENE IM WALD
2012-09-03“Gebrüder Grimm, witches, the big bad wolf, the forest is one hell of a scary place, I thought. But even as a child I was drawn towards it – it was scary, but the beauty and the peacefulness of it all sucked me in.”
Juergen Teller’s images tell stories, usually they are the stories of people. For “Irene im Wald” (Irene in the Forest), Teller photographed the woods nearby the artist’s childhood home near Nuremberg, Germany. Only sometimes including figures, Teller’s mother Irene and other relatives, the solitary nature of the pictures in “Irene im Wald” contributes to the intimacy of this honest portrait of the forest that he grew up with, capturing its haunting and lingering personality.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to November 4th, 2012
The Journal Gallery
168 North 1st Street
Brooklyn
NY
11211
