Gender and art

Belinda Seppings reviews Dorothea Tanning at Alison Jacques Gallery, and Shelagh Wakely at Camden Arts Centre: two London shows worth visiting this summer

‘Dorothea Tanning: Web of Dreams’ , until 27 September.

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/

‘Shelagh Wakely: A View from a Window’, until 28 September.

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/

"LONDON.- Working in close collaboration with The Dorothea Tanning Foundation, Alison Jacques Gallery presents its second solo exhibition of works by Dorothea Tanning. Web of Dreams brings together a selection of paintings and works on paper spanning fifty years, many of which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition begins with Tanning's 1939 work on paper Tango and ends with a work of the same title made in 1989, demonstrating the artist's lifelong study of the passionate interplay of figures.

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Un Tissu de Songes (Web of Dreams) (1973-93) provides the title of the show and is a prime example of Tanning's preoccupation with revisiting forms, themes, ideas, thoughts, feelings, and states of being. Originally painted in 1973, then reworked in 1984, and again in 1993, Un Tissu de Songes (Web of Dreams) alludes to a convergence of many dream-thoughts or perhaps, more simply, to being caught in an endless dream-like state."

Dorothe Tanning. Web of Dreams

11 July - 9 August 2014

Alison Jacques Gallery, London

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/exhibitions/111/installation_shots/