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DOROTHEA TANNING |
27 FEBRUARY – 9 JUNE 2019
TATE MODERN | LONDON, UK |
This Spring, Tate Modern stages a major exhibition of the work of pioneering artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). First ever to span Tanning’s remarkable seven-decade career, it follows the story of Tanning’s life and work, from her influential first encounters with Surrealism in New York in the 1930s, through to her later years as a painter, poet and writer. |
With a selection of 100 works, from her early enigmatic paintings to her ballet designs, uncanny stuffed textile sculptures, installations and large-scale late work, the exhibition explores how Tanning expanded the language of Surrealism. |
In 1946, she married Max Ernst and her work from this time investigated domestic spaces, combining the familiar with the strange, exploring desire and sexuality. In the mid-1960s Tanning used her sewing machine to make highly original ‘soft’ sculptures that will be at the center of the exhibition. These hand-crafted, anthropomorphic forms, in between bodies and objects, inspired Surrealist sculptors as well as key contemporary figures such as Louise Bourgeois or Sarah Lucas. |
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