El Greco. Coming from Greece to Venice to end in Spain, that’s a real european biography. But to be rediscovered by german scholars and to inspire the german expressionism is even more exiting. El Grecos paintings are showing a special perspective on faces from down under - he treats the clothes in an abstract way, neglecting the details in order to work out the impression as a whole. Only using primary colors and green in large perpendicular fields of drapery, abstract painting is not far away. Another sign of modernity is his atelier making cover versions of his paintings to sell them around the world, changing the perception of reality.
This was my third visite of the Juergen Teller show at the Consortium in Dijon with some of the EMA ART SCHOOL students in Chalon-sur-Saône. Do they have another look on the exhibition after a week of hard work in the workshop on german photography? Who knows?
Since three weeks I worked with my students on exhibitionsflyers of Julian Opie, Sigmar Polke and Rothko. They had to describe prices, biographies, pictures and so on. The last day had come and we went to the Juergen Teller exhibition at the Consortium. Even if at first they were not very interested, they saw directly that the pictures had a autobiographical-context and were trashy. In front of the self-portait with a Mercedes, they said it was Juergen Teller with my car. A real hint that germanness exists mainly through german cars and expresses international dreams of utopic luxury - as the last suvivoir of the island of utopia .