Soul Ready or Not

Cindy Sherman Exhibition GOMA Brisbane 28 MAY 2016 – 3 OCT 2016  – More than a game of dress ups? Cindy Sherman is coined as the great chameleon through her socially critical photography and has graced Australian shores with her first solo exhibition in 15 years at GOMA, Brisbane 2016.   This exhibition could be viewed as traversing her earlier post-modern work, inside the ‘Pictures Generation’, into the contemporary arena.   Sherman is giving a current interpretation of the age, a certain ‘kairos’, defining the invisible stretch of the digital upon identity constructs, social stereotypes and contemporary feminism albeit a white spray tanned aging narrative.   Sherman’s obsessive preoccupation with this carefully constructed story-telling technique within a single image and the ability to crucially move with the digital times have given her the opportunity to work with some big names like fashion houses Balenciaga and Chanel.   The exhibition includ...

THEME: ART NOUVEAU THIRTY YEAR PERIOD: 1875-1905 1875-   New constitutional laws instituted establishing parliamentary supremacy and a stable reign for France, the Third Republic of French government from 1870 to 1940. 1876 – Patent for the first telephone was lodged by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell-America 1877-   Invention of the Phonograph by Thomas Edison – sound recording and playback. 1878-    Thomas Edison in America & Joseph Swan in Britain invented the Light bulb. 1878-   Photographic advance with Gelatin Coated Dry Plates advertised for sale by Wratten & Wainwright & Peter Mawdsley Liverpool Dry Plate Company. 1880 – First Newspaper Photograph. 1881-   A new branch of the British Museum (Natural History) opened in South Kensington 1882-    Art workers guild created by Walter Crane and Lewis Day. 1882-    Pearl Street Power station in New York City opened by Thomas Edison. 1884...