The Tate Modern’s new exhibition brings together 100 pieces of work from the artist’s seven decade career. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
Costume for Night Shadow: A Guest 1945
The Destina Foundation, New York
© DACS, 2019
Culture Whisper: ***** ” Such varied, daring and experimental works makes for an exciting show, the first major one, in fact, for 25 years. It is not to be missed.”
The Guardian: ***** “Her disturbing art is the climax of surrealism, but this exhibition also reveals Tanning’s appetite for the gothic and its long history of female creativity.”
The Telegraph: *** “This is one of the strangest exhibitions I’ve ever seen in a major public gallery. Its subject is Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), one of a number of brilliantly talented women at the heart of the surrealist movement (Lee Miller, Meret Oppenheim and Dora Maar were others) who’ve been overshadowed by their better-known male partners and colleagues (Dali, Magritte, Man Ray et al).”
The Times: “Technically, Dorothea Tanning was a surrealist painter, but a new exhibition at Tate Modern shows that the word “gothic” suits her work equally well.”
Time Out: *** “This major show makes a strong case for her being one of the greats of surrealism, overshadowed throughout history by the macho men of the genre.”
London Visitors: “This fascinating exhibition takes viewers into the strange and wonderful world of Dorothea Tanning. Her style is similar to Salvador Dali but with a Gothic twist that creates worlds full of symbolism and unconscious desires.”
Londonist: ***** “Tanning isn’t a household name, but hopefully this show alerts the wider world to her mind-blowing imagination, creativity and versatility. This is easily one of the strongest show to grace Tate Modern in recent years.”
Evening Standard: **** “She is not original in the way artists are often expected to be, coming up with a shockingly noticeable individual visual brand. But she is original in the more serious sense of the notion. Whatever she made, she gave it a feeling of believable surprise.”
The Tate Modern’s exhibition focusing on the work of Dorothea Tanning is on display until the 9th June.