Lynn Hershman’s VertiGhost
December 2017
“Over the years, Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo
(1958) has left many artists obsessed, from Chris Marker, who
dedicated an entire segment of his Sans
Soleil (1983) to the thriller, to Douglas Gordon, whose
video Feature Film (1999) reuses Bernard
Herrmann’s score. Now, Lynn Hershman Leeson (Professor Emerita,
Art Studio and Cinema and Digital Media) will
address Vertigo with a new project
called VertiGhost at the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, with works at both the Legion of Honor and the de
Young Museum. The project includes a film about Portrait of
Carlotta Valdes, the painting that figures prominently in the
Hitchcock work, as well as a new work with a component that can
be accessed via the internet.
… With VertiGhost, Hershman Leeson addresses the fake
painting from the Hitchcock film and ties it to Amedeo
Modigliani’s painting Pierre-Edouard Baranowski(ca. 1918), a
work at the de Young that has for years been plagued with
questions about its authenticity.” — read more in
ARTNEWS
VertiGhost
Legion of Honor
San Francisco, CA