BONA DE MANDIARGUES AT ALISON JACQUES
Jemima Jenkins, fetch
July 2025
‘Alison Jacuqes’ current solo show of works by Italian artist Bona de Mandiargues (b.1926,Rome; d.2000, Paris), arrives fashionably late to the renewed interest and auction success of the much overlooked Surrealist women. Most recently, works by Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo achieved record prices at Christies May marquee sale in New York – almost a century after André Breton declared women as ‘the most marvellous and disturbing problem there is in the world’ in his Manifesto of Surrealism (1929). In its final week of installment, this exhibition marks the first solo exhibition of de Mandiargues in the UK and my first experience of the fabric dreamscapes she referred to as ragarts.’ […]