Lot 424 | Untitled #362

SHERMAN, CINDY
1954 Glen Ridge/New Jersey

Title: Untitled #362.
Date: 2000.
Technique: C-Print laid down on Kapa board.
Depiction Size: 69 x 46cm.
Notation: Signed, dated, titled and numbered (verso on board).
Number: 6/6.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


Provenance:
- Metro Pictures, New York

Exhibitions:
- Künstler-Verein Malkasten, Düsseldorf 2001
- me Collectors Room, Berlin 2015
- Museum Jorn, Silkeborg 2017
- Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen 2018/2019

Literature:
- Schoppmann, Wolfgang: ohne zögern - Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2, Heidelberg 2001, ill. p. 217
- Stiftung Olbricht (ed.): Cindy Sherman - Works from the Olbricht Collection, Berlin 2015, ill. p. 75
- Museum Jorn (ed.): Cindy Sherman, Silkeborg 2017, ill. w/o p. (Headshots), p. 137 with ill.

The works of important female artists from Germany and abroad represent a focal point of the Olbricht Collection. This also includes several works by Cindy Sherman. Created in different phases of her work, they provide a wonderful overview of the American artist's oeuvre. The photograph presented here dates from the year 2000 and is assigned to the series of "Hollywood/Hampton Types", because the two places stand for the jetset of beautiful people. In this work, Sherman remains true to her leitmotif and embodies a female stereotype: coquettish and self-confident, her "figure" looks into the camera. She is photographed frontally above the belly, imitating a pose of models or actresses for set cards. It is not only the image of an aging woman that disappoints expectations of such a portrayal. The thickly applied make-up cannot be overlooked, nor the wig, the crooked teeth and the breast prosthesis. The display of the masquerade exposes the role pattern, exaggerates it and lets it become a caricature of itself. The shattered American dream is impressively symbolized here, as in the other works in the series created between 2000 and 2002.