“I felt it was important to note her own idea of self-fashioning, what she wanted to be remembered for, but also to complicate how we talk about and curate shows about women artists,” she says. In this week’s episode of The Art Newspaper podcast, Alyce Mahon, the reader of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Cambridge and the curator of the Madrid exhibition, tells us why she has emblazoned Tanning’s words so prominently within the exhibition. You may be a woman and you may be an artist but the one is a given and the other is you.” “It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as ‘man artist’ or ‘elephant artist’. There is no such thing-or person,” it begins. In the final room of the Dorothea Tanning exhibition now on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, visitors will see one of Tanning’s quotes on the wall.
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