Cindy Sherman
Untitled #463. 2007-08.
Chromogenic color print, 68 5/8 x 6″ (174.2 x 182.9 cm).
Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
© 2012 Cindy Sherman
MoMA presents retrospective of Cindy Sherman The important retrospective of Cindy Sherman traces the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid-1970s to the present, from February 26 to June 11, 2012.]]>
Source: Museum of Modern Art
The exhibition brings together 171 key photographs from the artist’s significant series—including the complete “Untitled Film Stills” (1977–80), the critically acclaimed centerfolds (1981), and the celebrated history portraits (1988–90)—plus examples from all of her most important bodies of work, ranging from her fashion photography of the early 1980s to the breakthrough sex pictures of 1992 to her 2003–04 clowns and monumental society portraits from 2008. In addition, the exhibition features the American premiere of her 2010 photographic mural.
Cindy Sherman is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential artists of our time and her work is the unchallenged cornerstone of post-modern photography. Masquerading as a myriad of characters in front of her own camera, Sherman creates invented personas and tableaus that examine the construction of identity, the nature of representation, and the artifice of photography. Her works speak to an increasingly image-saturated world, drawing on the unlimited supply of visual material provided by movies, television, magazines, the Internet, and art history.
“To create her photographs” -explains Eva Respini, Associate Curator of the Museum- “Sherman works unassisted in her studio and assumes multiple roles as photographer, model, art director, make-up artist, hairdresser, and stylist. Whether portraying a career girl or a blond bombshell, a fashion victim or a clown, a French aristocrat or a society lady of a certain age, for over 35 years this relentlessly adventurous artist has created an eloquent and provocative body of work that resonates deeply with our visual culture“.
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