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Wednesday 23 May 2012
Until 11 Jun 12
Sherman’s Untitled #474, 2008
new york. Cindy Sherman is known as quite the chameleon, transforming herself into a cast of characters through her photography. Her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) not only refreshes our memories about the parts she has played in the past, from her earliest “Untitled Film Stills” series starting in 1977, but also emphasises her newest work. MoMA’s show is the first public display in North America of her site-specific wall murals, which were shown at the Venice Biennale last year. “In addition to that, we’re featuring brand new work still at the printers,” says Eva Respini, MoMA’s associate curator of photography, who organised the show with the curatorial assistant Lucy Gallun. This latest series came out of a commission for Pop magazine, for which Sherman dressed head to heels in Chanel. Respini says that instead of the usual “chronological march” found in retrospective displays, the curators are “doing something slightly different” by punctuating the galleries that follow the timeline of Sherman’s career with rooms highlighting some of her themes, such as the grotesque. Helen Stoilas Categories: Contemporary (1970-present) Photography
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