Juergen Teller is Curating a Robert Mapplethorpe show
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed
August 2016
In honour of what would have been Robert Mapplethorpe’s 70th birthday, Juergen Teller is curating an exhibition of the iconoclast’s work at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery, opening November.
Giving the London-based, German-born artist and photographer – who last year famously shot Kim Kardashian-West and husband Kanye in the French countryside – free rein over the American artist’s entire archive via the Mapplethorpe Foundation, the gallery’s press release explains the parallels between Mapplethorpe and Teller’s ability to seamlessly cross over between the worlds of art and commercial fashion photography.