Cindy sherman's early works will be collected in the Gucci Florence Museum.

Gucci Museum is pleased to announce that the third exhibition of modern art is the early work of American artist cindy sherman. These works are all M.Fran? The exhibition was provided by ois Pinault and planned by Francesca Amfitheatrof. This creative work reflects Sherman's deep participation in gender and identity research, and has continued to deepen since then.

How did Cindy Sherman, an American girl who often wore the clothes of her mother and grandmother when she was a child, become one of the "25 most influential artists in the 20th century"?

Sherman's works were first presented to the audience in China at the Shanghai Biennale in 2004. At that Biennale, she showed the previously unknown early self-portrait work Bus Passenger (1976) and the latest self-portrait work Clown. The background and posture of bus passengers are very simple, the form is black and white photography, and the size is very small, while the latest self-portrait work is heavy makeup, which combines color photography with digital technology and has a huge size. The extreme contrast between the old and new works makes her great changes in art clear at a glance. Sherman 1954, who is now famous all over the world, was born in New Jersey. When I was studying at the State University of New York at Buffalo, although I studied painting, I fell hopelessly in love with photography. But she first decomposed her own images by photography, then cut and pasted them into a string and pasted them into her works to show a person's certain behavior or psychological process. This is her first attempt to make a work with photography.

From 65438 to 0977, she came to new york with her boyfriend, Robert Langer, who is now a big-name artist, and started her artistic career. On the streets of new york, she finally had a chance to witness the legendary star artists passing by. However, the real question is, how can I surprise and become one of them? Sherman, who is quiet and introverted, likes watching movies since he was a child and has been "glued" to the TV at home. Different from the previous generation of artists, the tumbling images in her mind are more images saved from watching movies and TV on weekdays than classic works in art history. As she said, "I'm more interested in going to the cinema than going to the art gallery." When she began to think about conducting art experiments in some way, a sentence from her boyfriend Langer made her realize. Langer said to her, "Instead of bothering to change clothes in front of the mirror, take a picture of yourself." So, she began to shoot untitled movie stills, which later became art classics in the 20th century.

In this series, she plays herself as a woman from all social classes in a special situation, such as a female librarian, a white-collar girl who has just arrived in new york, and a fledgling Hollywood actress. The female image in the photo reminds people of the heroine in Hollywood literary films, but people can't tell which one it is. These women often show a pair of expressions that are aware of the outside world, and their eyes often show horror, helplessness and confusion, but they also have a special sense of existence and temptation. She also emphasized the passive existence of women as viewers through the arrangement of lights and the use of lens positions. The woman in the photo is often claustrophobic in her private space, and most of them are immersed in a kind of expectation and fantasy. Through this series of female images, Sherman hinted at the hidden attention and the hidden existence of men in the photos.

She said, "What I like is the feeling of holding your throat. That can probably convey a sad feeling from despair to tears, but I want to say it but I can't say it. ..... When setting various character scenes, I must consider what I am fighting against. Because people ... depend on the face under makeup and hairstyle. I want people to know themselves, not me. " Sherman caused a sensation in the American art world with his series of Untitled Movie Stills. October magazine, founded in 1976, has been opening the way for post-modernism. Sherman's fledgling works were immediately favored by Douglas Cramp, the main critic of October, and became a timely text to explain postmodernism. Klump wrote an article in the month of 1979 10, and spoke highly of her works. Since then, Sherman has been pushed to the "front line" of postmodernism, and has never been under the "fire line" since then.

As far as photography is concerned, perhaps Sherman's most important contribution is that she denies the myth of "authenticity" of photography through changeable photographic images, and makes photography, which has been limited to real records, gain new growth space and possibility in self-fiction. It is not only a fictional scene, but also described in such a realistic way, which makes people discover another charm of photography.