![]() ![]() There's something flat about them, too: it's the way they're lit and the way they're composed. It's not only that her portraits are phony, the result only of her own solipsistic adventures in the dressing-up box. There is nothing to draw you back: no mystery, no transformation, no beauty. In the gallery, I noticed all the small things - the tea stains that gathered, like rust, between a set of protruding teeth the thick moustache of foundation on an upper lip the toe peeking out from beneath an embroidered kaftan, sheathed in nylon and an ugly pink mule, and thought, not for the first time, how beady she is at her best, Sherman has an almost novelistic eye for the way such things can betray a personality.īut once you've noted all this effort, your eyes flick away, disdainfully. Though there is no doubting Sherman's industry, I cannot subscribe to the view (of ARTnews magazine and others) that she is one of the world's 10 greatest living artists. Perhaps this is also why they bore me half to death. You could flick your finger against them and they'd crumble to dust. They share a common artifice, one that makes them seem, in spite of their Technicolor pluck and gargantuan proportions, precarious. Do the wealthy cling more desperately to their youth? Are they more deluded than those who cannot afford to listen to the blandishments of the cosmetic surgeon as he makes his pitch? According to Sherman, it would seem so. So the story she is telling is in fact about what happens when past-it skin and cash collide. Sherman found most of their outfits - gaudy yet oddly girlish - in an Upper East Side charity store much favoured by bony-shouldered New York matriarchs. The women she is playing, however, are rich: at one glance, we can tell that they are exactly the kind of females who might have sunk just a little too much of someone else's money into a now infamous Ponzi scheme. Ostensibly, then, these images, for which she has painted latex on to her skin to replicate lines more dramatic than her own, and then covered it with orange pancake and cherry rouge, are a meditation on ageing. The artist is now 55 and thinking - or so she has said in interviews - about wrinkles: how they can be disguised how they grow and multiply all the same. But their make-up, close to, belongs to the mad old lady you saw waiting at the bus stop: clown-like, childish, effortful and terribly sad.Īs usual, Sherman has acted as her own model. ![]() These tragic creatures, with their lacquered foreheads and their fussy evening wear, have all the trappings of a certain kind of wealth. Then again, the secret of these studies - such as it is - lies in their detail, so the more clogged Max Factor and crayoned kohl you can see on the women's faces, the more, in theory, their horror and pathos will work on you. The nature of her work means that it reproduces well in magazines and catalogues, so all you are really getting when you see it hanging on a gallery wall is a sense of its scale, though admittedly this is immense: the largest of the London works is 254cm high by 174cm wide. Is this very select sample worth the effort of a visit? I'm not sure. You can see five photographs from Sherman's latest series the rest of the new portraits are to be found at Sprüth Magers Berlin. Follow steps 1-3 to install content zips found under Common Files to install NEW content for Poser Pro 11.At Sprüth Magers London, a bijou gallery just off Bond Street, you can see Cindy Sherman's first UK show since 2007.Overwrite? Select "overwrite all" if prompted and hit OK. During install, if you get a message that says "file name" already exists.If you leave the Runtime folder on the default folder when installing, your content will be found in the Downloads folder of your Runtime library.Go to File/Install from ZIP Archive again, repeating until all 9 files are installed. Use browse to navigate to the folder you stored the downloaded zips in, select zip 01 and install to your preferred Runtime folder. Open Poser, go to File/Install from ZIP Archive. Preferred installation method for both MAC and Windows users - Once all 9 of the zip files are downloaded you may proceed to install zip files.You will need all 9 zips to correctly install the legacy content. Do not download more than 1 zip at a time. Under the Legacy Files heading - click on the file name of each file to download.Download the Legacy Content zip files by clicking the link on the downloads page that says "Download Additional Files".Installation Instructions - Legacy Content ![]()
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