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A Dance to the Music of Time I (1990) - Oil on Canvas 152cm x 183cm
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detail from 'A Dance to the Music of Time ll' 2018
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detail from 'A Dance to the Music of Time ll' 2018
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detail from 'A Dance to the Music of Time ll' 2018
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detail from 'A Dance to the Music of Time ll' 2018
Exhibition
A Dance to the Music of time - Wendy Elia-Paintings
29 Oct 2018 – 10 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Westminster Reference Library
- 35 St Martin's Street
- London
England - WC2H 7HP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Charing X / Leicester Square
- Charing Cross
Presentation of Wendy Elia’s major new figurative painting,' A Dance to the Music of Time II. ' 2018 ( Oil on Canvas 180cm x 220cm.) with its pendant, A 'Dance to the Music of Time' 1990 (152x182cms), which revisits its protagonists almost 30 years later.
About
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This exhibition marks the presentation of Wendy Elia’s major new figurative painting, A Dance to the Music of Time II. For the first time, her original A Dance to the Music of Time I (1990), will be seen with its pendant, A Dance to the Music of Time II, which revisits its protagonists almost 30 years later. Both works depict siblings Alexi and Madeleine, Elia’s children, engaged in introspective acts of movement and music-making in tilting rooms with dream-like vistas.
Their titles derive from a seventeenth century painting by French master Nicolas Poussin, currently on display in London’s Wallace Collection. Like Poussin’s meditation on time, music, dance, and fortune, Elia’s oeuvre is replete with symbols and narrative mystery, alluding to myriad other artworks. Part psychological portraits, part exploration of the nature of creativity, part interior landscapes, part histories of London then and now, these paintings invite us to consider the fate of our own childhood aspirations.
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