Cindy Sherman, considered one of the important American artists of her generation, will debut new work this June at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend 2023.
Cindy Sherman, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, 9 June – 16 September 2023
Images: © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #631
2010/2023
Gelatin silver print and chromogenic color print
50.8 x 33.7 cm / 20 x 13 1/4 in
Sherman's ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills—touchstones of contemporary art that continue to inspire and influence the course of art and image-making.
Left: © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #648
2023
Gelatin silver print
101.6 x 79 cm / 40 x 31 1/8 in
Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture, which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since. Since the early 2000s, Sherman has continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche with the addition of CGI, capturing the fractured sense of self in modern society which the artist has uniquely encapsulated from the outset of her career. In new works on view in Zurich, the artist collages parts of her own face to construct the identities of various sitters, using digital manipulation to accent the layered aspects and plasticity of the self. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
This exhibition of new work in Zurich will coincide with two museum shows by the artist: ‘Cindy Sherman – Tapestries’ at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark, and ‘Cindy Sherman: Anti-Fashion’ at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.
Roni Horn. ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse 9 June – 16 September 2023
Known for conceptually oriented work in diverse media, Roni Horn continues her exploration of identity and difference with the exhibition ‘An Elusive Red Figure…,’ on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse. Opening this June during Zurich Art Weekend, Horn presents a new work titled: ‘An elusive Red Figure darting about in the Venetian darkness; a red dwarf burning out beyond Saturn; a nasty gang of runts in red snowsuits acting out in a North American suburb; an attractive young Italian woman dressed in red is stalked by a lesbian serial killer; a village girl, the prettiest you can imagine, in a red velvet hood cut from the belly of a sleeping wolf ….’ (2022).
Roni Horn
Skulls of the World Unite • Orange Hope
2022
Two ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated
edge-to-edge in frame. Edition of 12
Also, detail from¬–
An elusive Red Figure darting about in the Venetian
darkness; a red dwarf burning out beyond Saturn; a
nasty gang of runts in red snowsuits acting out in a
North American suburb; an attractive young Italian
woman dressed in red is stalked by a lesbian serial
killer; a village girl, the prettiest you can imagine, in a red velvet hood cut from the belly of a sleeping wolf …. (2022)
Suite Y, 33 paired ink jet prints on rag paper. Bleed images, floated edge to edge in frame. Edition of 2 Each piece, 13.7 x 10.6” / 34.8 x 53.8 cm Frame size: 15.75 x 23.25 x 1.18” / 40 x 59.3 x 3 cm © Roni Horn Courtesy the artist and Hause.
‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is a suite of 33 paired ink jet prints, presented across the second-floor gallery space. Following on from the 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020),’ ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is a collection of outtakes from ‘LOG’ as well as original drawings, including quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events and original texts by Horn. It is a deeply personal work that reflects Horn’s relationship with drawing as a medium, which she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’
‘LOG,’ which debuted at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2021, is a large-scale installation comprised of 406 individual works on paper. The work was the result of a daily commitment to drawing undertaken by Horn over a period of fourteen months. ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020)’ will be on view at a major exhibition titled ‘Roni Horn: I am paralysed with hope’ at Centro Botín in Santander, coinciding with the artist’s presentation in Zurich. Concurrently, a major show will be on view at HE Art Museum in Shunde, China, titled ‘Roni Horn: A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream, … but a dream not dreamt is.’.
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