Title: Sherrie Levine's solo show
Description: Sherrie Levine's solo show, presented by Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone in collaboration with Moretti Fine Arts, will take place in Moretti Fine Arts, London From 13th to 31st october 2008 free entrance American photographer and conceptual artist, Sherrie Levine first gained critical attention in the early 1980s, when she was associated with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, David Salle and others known as 'Appropriationists' for drawing on existing imagery from 'high' and 'low' culture. Her works have been interpreted as a commentary on the death of Modernism and its ideals, the authenticity and autonomy of the art object. Levine's theoretical rigour was complemented by a delicate, timid, if not remote, handling of materials, adding a sensuous dimension to an otherwise academic pursuit. This show presents the installation "The Bachelors" (1989), which is inspired by Marcel Duchamp's "The Large Glass". In this work, composed by six pieces, Levine decided to "liberate" the malic molds (the bachelors) from the plane of The Large Glass, casting them in three dimensionals. The thing here that is added to the Duchamp effect is what is subtracted, namely, the effect of cutting away the bachelors from the rest of the apparatus, and finally of separating each bachelor from his fellows. The isolation is what is added. It is, we could say, an added subtraction.
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