At the Stelline Foundation in Milan, from November 5, 2021 to February 6, 2022, the exhibition Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Homage to Photographic Masters presents one of the most famous and celebrated series by the American artist Sandro Miller (Elgin, Illinois, 1958).
Curated by Anne Morin, produced and organized by Skira, in collaboration with diChroma Photography in Madrid and the Stelline Foundation, the exhibition features 61 images paying tribute to thirty-four photography masters such as Albert Watson, Annie Leibovitz, Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, Herb Ritts, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Richard Avedon, and Robert Mapplethorpe, in which John Malkovich, friend and accomplice of Miller, interprets the subject of famous shots, transforming into Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dalí, Mick Jagger, Muhammad Ali, Meryl Streep, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, and many other characters.
Each of us - says Sandro Miller - has a hero or a person we admire. We praise them, we venerate them, and we put them on a pedestal. It can be a religious figure, a Hollywood actor, a sports star like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. For me, the great masters of photography are like sports champions. I admire Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, and every single photographer represented in my Homage to the Masters. I have recreated the photographs of the great masters as a sign of respect, love, and admiration.