For more than 35 years, Cindy Sherman (born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been visualising a multitude of role models and female identities through the use of make-up, wigs, clothing, facial expression and gestures. Even as an adolescent, the artist loved to dress up. Contrary to general opinion, it is not the famous Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) that form her early work, but rather the photography that she created in Buffalo as early as 1975 until 1977. During these years, she elevated the game of transformation into an artistic concept and the result was numerous hitherto unknown works, featuring moments of theatre as well as of film.
In close collaboration with the artist, Gabriele Schor has academically researched the conceptual and performative beginnings of Cindy Sherman’s œuvre on behalf of SAMMLUNG VERBUND and is now publishing the “catalogue raisonné” of her early works, which is appearing in January 2012 in the Hatje Cantz publishing company, in German and English editions. The book is a collaboration between Cindy Sherman, SAMMLUNG VERBUND and Metro Pictures.
The accompanying exhibition is entitled “Cindy Sherman. That’s me – That’s not me. Early works 1975-1977”. Cindy Sherman’s early works in the "Vertical Gallery" of the VERBUND headquarters display some 50 of the artist’s works, which have been continually acquired by SAMMLUNG VERBUND since its founding in 2004.
Cindy Sherman. That's me - That's not me. Early works 1975 - 1977
January 27 2012 until September 26 2012
Curated by Gabriele Schor
Guided tours every Wednesday from 6.00 p.m., registration necessary
"Vertical Gallery", Am Hof 6a, 1010 Vienna
After the first prasentation in Austria the show is now travelling to Switzerland and Italy:
CENTRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Geneva, Switzerland
Vernissage December 4, 2012
Exhibition till January 13, 2013
http://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/index.php?/expos-a-venir/thats-me---thats-not-me/
KUNST MERAN, Meran, Italy
Vernissage January 31, 2013
Exhibition till May 26, 2013
http://www.kunstmeranoarte.org/