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August 24 2003, Sunday, 10am-6pmLAST WEEKEND TO SEE NEW JERSEY-BORN, CINDY SHERMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITS AT GALLERY WITHIN LONDON'S HYDE PARK - BEFORE EXHIBITION HEADS NORTH (TO SCOTLAND), FOR THREE-MONTH SHOW IN EDINBURGHThose of you that have passed through Gloucester Road tube station (platform 4) will probably have noticed ten large photographic billboards on display. Well, it is Cindy Sherman's first billboard project, to coincide with her exhibition (with free admission) at the Serpentine gallery that is on just until tomorrow, Bank holiday Monday. The exhibition's press release which we received begins, 'Cindy Sherman [in her late-forties] is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. This survey exhibition, her first in the United Kingdom for almost ten years, brings together over fifty works which span the artist's career and include new work shown here for the first time.' It goes on to say, 'The exhibition centres on the many "characters" and "portraits" Sherman has created over the past three decades. Since the mid-1970s, she has been taking photographs of herself, combining her roles of director, photographer and leading actress to create provocative and intriguing images in both black-and-white and colour.' The press release then looks at her biography, relating to her art, 'Sherman first became known for her late 1970s series Untitled Film Stills, black-and-white photographs in which she mimicked both the characters and settings of the imaginary 1950s and 60s Hollywood B-movies.
This was followed by her work in the 1980s in
colour making reference to fashion photography, television, horror movies and porn. In
1989-90 her history portraits played off old master paintings, re-interpreting issues of
gender and status, and idealisation versus reality in traditional portraiture. In her
newest work, featured at the Serpentine Gallery for the first time, Sherman says that she
uses clowns "as a trigger for showing the multi-layered emotional depths within a
painted smile."' As today is the second-last day to catch and eyeful of her works, we
suggest you go along to the exhibiting venue - an art gallery within the confines of
Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park - as soon as possible (before it heads north, to the
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, December 2003 - March 2004). As
admission is free, we expect there will be a high turnout this weekend before the London
closure. Telephone 020 7402 6075 for more information, if required. Location: Serpentine
Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2. Tube station: South Kensington (Circle, District
and Piccadilly lines). Buses: 9, 10, 12, 24 and 52.
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