Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait @ MoMAFrench artist and celebrated sculptor, Louise Bourgeoi
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait @ MoMAFrench artist and celebrated sculptor, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) had her first real retrospective, at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of seventy-one. Bourgeois worked well into her nineties, leaving behind a body of work spanning over 70 years of her past and present self.The prize of the show sits in the museum’s Marron Atrium – Spider, one of the series of Cells that Bourgeois created over the last two decades of her career, and the only one of Bourgeois’ sixty-two Cells that brings together the Spider and cell structure. Nearly 15ft tall, the steel spider sculpture crouches over a Cell, the door of its caged barrier between the interior world of Bourgeois and viewer, left slightly ajar. A chair adorned with unraveling tapestry sits inside; worn, slightly less vivid tapestry drapes sections of the cage lending to connotations of restoring, and repairing oneself through art. Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait runs at MoMA September 24, 2017–January 28, 2018 -- source link
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