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• Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope review – a wonder weaver

  20-11-2022 14:00
  Tate Modern, London
  The radical, grand-scale textile sculptures of the late Polish artist are a sensory delight in this sensitively curated showThe scent is of warm sheep’s fleece, fresh peat and sisal. The sense is of being outdoors in the woods. All around you they rise: dark, looming forms suspended from on high, some of them branching out like trees, others tangled with vines or opening their hollow trunks as if to offer shelter from the coming storm. An ancient forest, primal, majesti
  
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• Why an avant-garde iris collector is sharing a space with Gainsborough

  20-11-2022 11:00
  Former home of the 18th-century master exhibits the lesser-known works of Cedric Morris, thanks to Maggi HamblingWhen the first visitors cross the threshold of the refurbished Gainsborough House, the childhood home of the artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk, on Monday,the work of another, less famous, local artist and knight of the realm will be competing for attention.Cedric Morris, plant enthusiast, landscape painter and portraitist, is being celebrated for the first time in the mus
  
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• The big picture: Thomas Rousset’s surreal image of French rural life

  20-11-2022 08:00
  The photographer’s curious tableau fuses the nostalgic and comic in a portrait of his home village near GrenobleThe village of Prabért is a small community east of Grenoble in the French Alps. It is also a place that comes alive in the imagination of Thomas Rousset, who grew up there and became a photographer. Rousset studied his art at college in Lausanne, Switzerland, and came back to Prabért every weekend to do his “homework”. That practice developed over a dec
  
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