For Immediate Release:
Cindy Sherman – Centerfolds, 1981
May 10 – June 14, 2003
Skarstedt Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Cindy Sherman – Centerfolds. This exhibition will present Sherman’s first large-scale color photographs from 1981.
Invited by Artforum to design a portfolio to be reproduced in the magazine, Sherman set out to exploit the centerfold format. The pictures are horizontal, the figures shot close up, life size (2 x 4 feet), then cropped as if forced into the frame. The background has been greatly reduced, the figures fill the frame with a corporeal presence that has been described by one critic as “embarrassingly intimate.” Sherman develops each character through the process of working up a costume and further defines it by colored lights and gels.
Lisa Phillips, Cindy Sherman, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987.
Strongly influenced by Performance Art, which promoted the concept of the artist as director, actor and storyteller, Sherman moves effortlessly through all of these arenas playing the roles of photographer and subject, but neither in the traditional sense. These images are not typical self-portraits. Instead Sherman creates provocative and ambiguous narratives that emphasis emotional and psychological personifications. The works deals with the different aspects of the creation of one’s own self-image and emerges as media-induced female stereotypes.
Sherman has had extensive gallery and museum exhibitions since 1979. Sherman’s work was the subject of retrospectives organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1997 which traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The Museum of Modern Art exhibited, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Films Stills, 1997. Upcoming exhibitions are Cindy Sherman, Serpentine Gallery, London 3 June – 25 August 2003 and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 6 December 2003 – 7 March 2004.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com
Cindy Sherman – Centerfolds, 1981
May 10 – June 14, 2003
Skarstedt Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Cindy Sherman – Centerfolds. This exhibition will present Sherman’s first large-scale color photographs from 1981.
Invited by Artforum to design a portfolio to be reproduced in the magazine, Sherman set out to exploit the centerfold format. The pictures are horizontal, the figures shot close up, life size (2 x 4 feet), then cropped as if forced into the frame. The background has been greatly reduced, the figures fill the frame with a corporeal presence that has been described by one critic as “embarrassingly intimate.” Sherman develops each character through the process of working up a costume and further defines it by colored lights and gels.
Lisa Phillips, Cindy Sherman, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987.
Strongly influenced by Performance Art, which promoted the concept of the artist as director, actor and storyteller, Sherman moves effortlessly through all of these arenas playing the roles of photographer and subject, but neither in the traditional sense. These images are not typical self-portraits. Instead Sherman creates provocative and ambiguous narratives that emphasis emotional and psychological personifications. The works deals with the different aspects of the creation of one’s own self-image and emerges as media-induced female stereotypes.
Sherman has had extensive gallery and museum exhibitions since 1979. Sherman’s work was the subject of retrospectives organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1997 which traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The Museum of Modern Art exhibited, Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Films Stills, 1997. Upcoming exhibitions are Cindy Sherman, Serpentine Gallery, London 3 June – 25 August 2003 and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 6 December 2003 – 7 March 2004.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com