Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still #21
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Cindy Sherman
UNITED STATES
SAN FRANCISCO • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) • 14 July - 8 October 2012
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Bringing together more than 170 photographs, this retrospective survey traces Cindy Sherman's (American, b. 1954) career from the mid 1970s to the present. Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. The exhibition explores dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which had their American premiere at MoMA in New York before the show travelled to San Francisco.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Website
Please click here for a Culturekiosque art review of Cindy Sherman retrospective, previously seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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