Cindy Sherman
Retrospective
2 December 2006 - 28 January 2007, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at

fig.: Cindy Sherman, Portrait

Cindy Sherman, born 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, studied painting and then photography at Buffalo. There she met the artist Robert Longo. Together with Charles Clough they created Hallwalls, an independent space where she exhibited alongside other up-and-coming artists. After graduating in 1976, she settled in New York. Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York.

She started photographing herself in 1977, and the use of her own image became a founding principle of
her work. She explores the mysteries of the nature of human identity, and our capacity to know or misread our true selves, to picture our own image,
and invent parallel lives — a capacity that we share with no other living creature. more culture >>>

If you have no chance to visit the exhibition, you can buy the catalogue "Cindy Sherman" (288 pages, 200 illustrations) written by Régis Durand, head of the Jeu de Paume and curator of the exhibition, Laura Mulvey, professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College of the University London, and Jean-Pierre Criqui, art critic and the editor-in-chief of the Cahiers du Musée national d'Art moderne. www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at