Owner anonymous. (Out of the series ‚Fairy Tales and Disasters‘ 1985-89)
art.pralinees Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153 (1985). Photograph: Chromogenic colour print. 170 cm × 120 cm. Owner anonymous. (Out of the series ‚Fairy Tales and Disasters‘ 1985-89) In addition to her film stills, Sherman has appropriated a number of other visual forms: the centerfold, fashion photograph, historical portrait, and soft-core sex image. These and other series, like the 1980s ‘Fairy Tales‘ and ‘Disasters‘ sequence, were shown for the first time at the Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City. In ‘Fairy Tales‘, 1985, and ‘Disasters‘, 1986–1989, Cindy Sherman uses visible prostheses and mannequins for the first time. Sherman utilised a wide variety of make-up techniques, masks and prostheses to create a truly shocking and grotesque representation of the body. Joanna Lowry describes the collection as moving towards "...the dark underside of our collective fantasies, a place where the forces of a polymorphous unbridled sexuality and violence are set loose amongst the...