Mario Testino. In Your Face by Mario Testino

“In Your Face” gather works which combine key elements from contemporary culture, inviting the visitor to enter an aesthetically beautiful world of glamour, sensuality and sophistication. Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity. His unique style and intuitive ability to capture moments creating emotional connections, made of Mário Testino one of the most known photographers in the world. 1954 'EXPOSED, KATE MOSS', 2008 Chromogenic print, flush-mounted to aluminium. Testino has established the order of the works, positioning formal portraits with intimate snapshots, nudes and fashion, black and white and color, framed images and engravings fixed directly on the walls. Mario Testino grew up in Lima, Peru, an endlessly intriguing city of brooding conquistador-era palaces and leafy suburbs surrounded by hills and lapped by the crashing Pacific. A wide array of works from the photographer’s career will be presented, carefully not overlapping one style over another, creating contrasts and provocative contradictions. Published to accompany the In Your Face exhibition at MFA Boston in 2012, this rich volume celebrates Mario Testinos ability to capture beauty anywhere. The work selection represents the idea of a collection with drawn from a museum where different artists and genres are exhibited together. It shows several of his most daring pictures, giving the viewer a privileged vision of his world through 120 images handpicked by him. The “ In Your Face” exhibition – shown at Boston’s Fine Arts Museum in 2012 and in the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in 2014 – is an intimate and provocative vision of the different aspects of Testino‘s work.

Mario Testino. In Your Face by Mario Testino