“Sherman’s art-photographs that are like one-frame movies, which she directs and acts in-deman special explanation. Alive in the experience of the viewers who reject being told what to think, they qualify Sherman as the strongest and finest American artists of her time,” said The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl about the current Cindy Sherman retrospective.
This November, The Walker Art Center welcomes the Cindy Sherman retrospective to it’s presentine, white walls. Fresh off the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, Sherman’s retrospective has caught critical acclaim and is a must-see for all art and fashion lovers alike. The retrospective features around 160 photographs ranging over Sherman’s 35-year career.
The Walker Art Center’s Cordinating Curator Siri Engberg regards the retrospective as “mining a limitless supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history, she [Sherman] captures herself in an astounding range of guises and personas—from screen siren to clown to aging socialite—in work that is by turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting.”
Sherman wields a range of personas each beautifully and presecially ornamented. “Besides model and photographer, she also acts as makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress, working with an arsenal of wigs, costumes, prosthetics, and props in creating her work. The resulting images offer a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation,” said Engberg.
Sherman’s work covers themes from “artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; gender and class; horror and the grotesque; and myth, carnival, and fairtayle,” according to Engberg. Sherman’s retrospective, which features a large arraye of photographs from 1988-1990, is also a perfect succession to the previous exhibitionThis Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 80s.
The Walker Art Center will kick off the retrospective on November 9 their special event Walker After Hours: Alter Egos.
Date: November 10, 2012 – February 17, 2013
Place: Target and Friedman Galleries @ The Walker Art Center
For more information, check out: www.walkerart.org
