Cindy Sherman & David Salle: History Portraits and Tapestry Paintings

1 Oct-26 Nov 2016

Overview

A joint exhibition of eight of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits (1988 – 1990) and six of David Salle’s Tapestry Paintings (1989 – 1991) opens this October to inaugurate the new London gallery on Bennet Street, St James’s. David Salle’s Tapestry Paintings are a pastiche on sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian and Dutch genre styles incorporating elements from contemporary advertisements. Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits take their inspiration from noble historical paintings from the renaissance, baroque, rococo and neo-classical periods. Considered to be among their most accomplished bodies of work, the exhibition of these historical series will provide a renewed perspective in which to consider the significance of the artists’ earlier works and their influence on subsequent generations of painters and photographers.