16 April - 27 May 2009
Private view: Wednesday 15 April 2009, 6 - 8pm
THE photographer Cindy Sherman, who is SO important and influential to contemporary photography that I cannot even begin to describe it here -and I'm sure you know it anyway- is having an exhibition of her recent work opening in London next week.
I must say I am personally quite tired of hearing her ''unititled film stills'' series get mentioned over and over (and over...) again, and also of seeing her face, I am definitely going to see this show, because it's important and the prospect (even if unlikely) of potentially seeing her there in person, is just too thrilling to miss!
Sprüth Magers, London
7A Grafton Street
London W1S 4EJ
www.spruethmagers.com
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
The Guardian already published a preview review:
An over-made-up woman wrapped in a fur stole and smiling (as much as a face-lift allows) is surrounded by a fiery orange marble-effect halo. It is just about the ugliest picture I've ever seen. In reality the woman is Cindy Sherman, art world chameleon, who has spent the past 30 years playing female stereotypes throughout her various works. Movie stars, prostitutes, murder victims, valium-hooked housewives - you name it, she's transformed herself into that character. In her new series, Sherman has dressed up as what is laughingly called, in certain magazines, the "seasoned woman". Many of the results are ludicrous, which says something about the way we perceive the older woman. Ageing crones, facelift harpies, embittered divorcees - once again Sherman pictures our nightmares and throws them back in our faces.
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