Her installation of these sculptures as clustered ‘environments’ in 19 foreshadowed the immersive encounters of installation art twenty years before the genre’s rise to prominence.īourgeois’s work was included in the seminal exhibition ‘Eccentric Abstraction,’ curated by Lucy Lippard for New York’s Fischbach Gallery in 1966. The ‘Personages’ served as physical surrogates for the friends and family Bourgeois had left behind in France, while also highlighting an interest in architecture dating back to her childhood.
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Although her oeuvre traverses the realms of painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Bourgeois remains best known for her work in sculpture.īourgeois’s early works include her distinct ‘Personages’ from the late 1940s and early 1950s a series of free-standing sculptures which reference the human figure and various urban structures, including skyscrapers. Rather than pursuing formalist concerns for their own sake, Bourgeois endeavored to find the most appropriate means of expressing her ideas and emotions, combining a wide range of materials-variously, fabric, plaster, latex, marble and bronze-with an endless repertoire of found objects.
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Employing motifs, dramatic colors, dense skeins of thread, and vast variety of media, Bourgeois’s distinctive symbolic code enmeshes the complexities of the human experience and individual introspection. ‘Art,’ as she once remarked in an interview, ‘is the experience, the re-experience of a trauma.’ Arising from distinct and highly individualized processes of conceptualization, Bourgeois’s multiplicity of forms and materials enact a perpetual play: at once embedding and conjuring emotions, only to dispel and disperse their psychological grasp. Articulated by recurrent motifs (including body parts, houses and spiders), personal symbolism and psychological release, the conceptual and stylistic complexity of Bourgeois’s oeuvre-employing a variety of genres, media and materials-plays upon the powers of association, memory, fantasy, and fear.īourgeois’s work is inextricably entwined with her life and experiences: fathoming the depths of emotion and psychology across two- and three-dimensional planes of expression. For over seven decades, Bourgeois’s creative process was fueled by an introspective reality, often rooted in cathartic re-visitations of early childhood trauma and frank examinations of female sexuality. New York, 22nd Street New York, 22nd Streetīorn in France in 1911, and working in America from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century.
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Hauser & Wirth Poster Archive Hauser & Wirth Poster Archive.Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace Anj Smith: Misleading, Like Lace.Amy Sherald: The World We Make Amy Sherald: The World We Make.Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul.Maria Lassnig: The Biography Maria Lassnig: The Biography.Artist in Residence Christina Quarles Artist in Residence Christina Quarles.Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles.Education Lab Returns to Menorca Education Lab Returns to Menorca.Hauser & Wirth Paris to Open Hauser & Wirth Paris.Unveiling our Outdoor Sculpture Trail in Menorca Unveiling our Outdoor Sculpture Trail in Menorca.Allison Katz joins Hauser & Wirth Allison Katz joins Hauser & Wirth.Conversations A Space for Expansive Listening Conversations.Christina Quarles: In the Studio Christina Quarles: In the Studio.Christina Quarles In 24 Days tha Sun’ll Set at 7pm New York, 22nd Street.DEMENTED WORDS Jenny Holzer New York, 22nd Street.
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