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Untitled #470
© Cindy Sherman
Untitled #470
Untitled #470
Photo repro: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet

Untitled #470

by Cindy Sherman
Artist (USA, född 1954)
Alternate Title
  • Utan titel #470
Date2008
MediumChromogenic print type C
DimensionsBildmått: 216,5 × 147,5 cm Ram: 231 × 162 × 8 cm
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Countries
Credit LineInköp 2008 med medel från The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc.
Object NumberMOM/2008/76
CollectionsMaterialitet
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkCindy Sherman’s photographs explore the potential of the image to create myths, and how identity is constructed. Her photos seem to be immediately accessible, and they quickly appealed to both critics and a broad public, but they are nevertheless underpinned by paradoxes. The artist is both model and photographer, but the pictures are not portraits. The works borrow from an image repertoire that is familiar to us from movies, art and media, but nevertheless remain enigmatic. They suggest stories without revealing anything about themselves, not even a title. In Untitled #470 we meet the eye of a socialite with the air of a renaissance prince, at once both grotesque and regal. Following her controversial, powerful images referencing art history and mythology in the 1990s, Sherman here portrays a group that rarely has access to the public image flow, regardless of social status – her own generation of aging women. The picture is not aiming for illusion but, as always, leaves obvious chinks in the enactment for the viewer to fill in. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Verso i tusch, Etikett med namn titel, år, upplaga, material och mått Selected exhibition history Cindy Sherman - Untitled Horrors (den 19 oktober 2013 - den 19 januari 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ladies and Gentlemen! Med kameran som spegel (den 17 februari 2012 - den 22 april 2012) Moderna Museet Malmö En annan historia: I kamerans våld (den 23 februari 2011 - den 31 december 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Cindy Sherman : Untitled Horrors : [Moderna Museet 19/10 2013-19/1 2014]