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Sandro Miller
Malkovich - Then Came John, 2024Hardcover book with swiss binding and built-in video screen, 352 pages, English, numbered and signed by John Malkovich and Sandro Miller
Digital print, numbered, signed and dated by Sandro Miller
Steel custom-made bookstand with Sandro Miller and John Malkovich’s initials
USB-stick containing four short films directed by Sandro Miller with John Malkovich
Information booklet about these short films35,5 x 45 cmEdition of 300 plus 15 APBook numbered and signed by John Malkovich and Sandro Miller
Digital print numbered, signed and dated by Sandro Miller€ 5,000.00Further images
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What does it mean to appropriate a work? Where is the boundary between fiction and reality and where do these two overlap? These are the complex questions photographer Sandro Miller...What does it mean to appropriate a work?
Where is the boundary between fiction and reality and where do these two
overlap? These are the complex questions photographer Sandro Miller wants to
investigate with his work. At the same time, his photographs pay tribute to
great photographers who inspired him, gave him footing and enabled him to
pursue his own creative goals. Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier, Bert Stern,
Diane Arbus and Gordon Parks have all influenced his view of the world.
Sandro Miller does not celebrate the entire oeuvres of these artists, but
specific iconic images that have left a lasting impression on him. He decided
to recreate these images with the complicity of his great friend, the actor
John Malkovich. They engaged in a kind of role-play, but seriously because it
also raises fundamental questions about the creative process and the role of
appropriation.
To stay as close to reality as possible, they stage the images with the same
tools that the photographers of the originals had at their disposal. Each
picture starts with a meticulously reconstructed setting with similar,
identical or sometimes even recreated objects. This is followed by the lengthy
make-up process that Malkovich patiently endures to become the original. The
shooting takes place in just a few minutes, like a kind of thrust linking them
closely. Sandro Miller achieves extremely delicate levels of perception,
nuances that are almost imperceptible but still make all the difference.
Ultimately, the original and the replica overlap, like two superimposed
holograms, doppelgangers staring at each other.
'Malkovich - Then came John' is a special collector's edition because of its
content and form. Never before has a screen been integrated into the cover of a
book. In addition, the edition is signed by Sandro Miller and John Malkovich
and comes with a specially designed steel book stand, a USB stick with four
short films and a portrait photograph of Malkovich, taken by Sandro Miller in
honour of this project.
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