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Curator's Talk: Dorothea Tanning

11 March 2019 at 18.30–20.30
This is a photograph of one of Dorothea Tanning's soft sculptures on display in a white-walled gallery space. One sculpture is light pink and fleshy and is intertwined with a brown, hairy figure.

Dorothea Tanning Étreinte 1969 The Destina Foundation, New York

Learn more about Dorothea Tanning’s seven-decade career in this curator-led talk

An in-depth overview of Tanning’s life and work over the course of a century. Learn more about this pioneering artist: from her early surrealist paintings to her use of soft sculpture, installation and poetry.

Ann Coxon is Curator of Displays and International Art at Tate Modern.

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