Ce catalogue, publié à l'occasion de l'exposition à la National Portrait Gallery en juin 2019, considère l'oeuvre de Cindy Sherman à travers l'outil du portrait. Avec la contribution d'écrivains et de conservateurs tels qu'Erika Balsom et Christopher Riopelle, le livre explore les thèmes et les styles constitutifs de son langage visuel et la façon dont l'identité est construite à partir de l'apparence dans une relation mercurielle entre la surface et la réalité.
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) is her own subject matter. One of the most celebrated female artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries she has, for a period spanning more than thirty years, used make-up, prosthetics and props to present herself in the guise of numerous different personae, placed in contexts that draw on the visual conventions of film, television and the media. Such settings and characters invite the viewer to consider the relation of appearance and identity and also the way in which female stereotypes have been perpetuated not only by the media but also by the art world itself.
This book introduces some of Sherman's most important works, from her seminal 1970s series Untitled Film Stills, which references film noir movies by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock and Jacques Tourneur, to her progression into colour photography in the 1980s series Centerfolds. It also follows her decision to remove herself from the picture by allowing her props and prosthetics alone to represent the subjects that she wished to critique, such as pornography and war photography.
In the last decade Sherman has reintroduced herself into her work, for example in her History Portraits where she playfully appropriates the subjects of the Old Masters, as well as introducing us to a whole new cast of characters in her Clowns and Headshots (or Hollywood/Hampton Types). It also presents her most recent pieces - large-scale murals and photographs, in which more ambiguous identities are played out within epic landscapes.
Cette monographie, publiée par la galerie David Zwirner, revient sur les peintures et oeuvres sur papier de l'artiste britannique, mettant l'accent sur son utilisation récurrente de la ligne.
'"As Paul Moorhouse shows in this thorough and sensitive first biography, which concentrates on [Riley's] early years up to the age of thirty-four, it was only after many false starts, bracing shocks and firm decisions that Riley found her way as an abstract painter in the early 1960s with her eye-dazzling lines, squares, curves ... in ultra-hard-edged black-and-white". -Times Literary Supplement "In "Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person - The Early Years," Paul Moorhouse ... homes in on the period between the artist's childhood and her earliest success, and makes a surprising but compelling case for the influence of landscape on Ms Riley's distinctive style." -Wall Street Journal "An entertaining and informative text that adds greatly to our understanding of a very prominent and still highly intriguing British artist." -Hyperallergic In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The Responsive Eye, a major exhibition of abstract painting at the Museum of Modern Art, signalled the latest phenomenon, op art - and its centre of attention was a young painter named Bridget Riley, whose dazzling painting Current appeared on the cover of the catalogue. Riley's first solo show in New York sold out, and, following a feature in Vogue magazine, the Riley 'look' became a fashion craze. Overnight, she had become a sensation, yet only three years earlier, she was a virtual unknown. How did success arrive so suddenly?
Authored by the acclaimed curator and writer Paul Moorhouse, A Very Very Person is the first biography of Bridget Riley and addresses that tantalising question. Focusing on her early years, it tells the story of a remarkable woman whose art and life were entwined in surprising ways. This intimate narrative explores Riley's wartime childhood spent in the idyllic Cornish countryside, her subsequent struggles to find her way as an artist, and the personal challenges she faced before finally arriving as one of the world's most celebrated artists in Swinging Sixties London.
Selected by curator and art historian Paul Moorhouse, Assouline presents Salvador Dali': The Impossible Collection, spotlighting 100 works by this extraordinary creative mind, exploring Dali''s inspirations and array of influences, from Old Masters to realism, Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism as well as experimental approaches that delved into his obsessions with religion, science and stereoscopy.
Lauréat du Turner Prize en 1985, Howard Hodgkin est considéré comme un des grands artistes britanniques contemporains. Ce catalogue accompagne la première exposition consacrée uniquement à ses portraits souvent abstraits, de 1960 à 2014.
