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GERMANY / Berlin: CINDY SHERMAN
by Modem
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until Sunday August 28 2016

Me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation
T : +49 30 86 00 85 10
Auguststrasse 68
10117 Berlin
Germany

Including works from almost all periods of her career, the collection represents a striking survey of Cindy Sherman’s work, with the resulting exhibition having the scope and character of a retrospective.

Variously casting herself as an ingénue at the sink in black-and-white of the 1950s, a gold-blonde ‘Maria Lactans’ with a vacant expression and plastic breast, or an aging upper-class beauty wearing far too much jewelry and much too much makeup, American artist Cindy Sherman is a master of masquerade. Throughout her career she has simultaneously acted as her own actress and photographer, subject and object. And yet her portraits do not represent actual personalities. Instead they paraphrase social and cultural stereotypes with the aim of deconstructing them through the prism of cinema, classical painting, or advertising.

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