Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) (via Arte)
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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) - Spirals, 2005
Carine Roitfeld, Brigitte Bardot, Coco Chanel and 47 other nonchalant women through history.
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
Dimitris Yeros, Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2009 David Seidner, Louise Bourgeois, 1992 David Seidner, Louise Bourgeois, contact sheet, 1992 Louise Bourgeois With all its contents, the studio that L…
I finally broke down and ordered this exhibition catalogue from the 2005 Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Kunsthalle Vienna. It arrived last week, and is so fantastic. It includes her fabulous fabric books Ode à l'oubli, 2004 (Ode to the Forgotten) and Ode à la bièvre, 2002 (Ode to the Bièvre), made from the scraps of everyday life ~ and these fantastic fabric drawings (above) from 2003 and 2005. I think they look like webs for her giant spiders! (images: Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2003 and 2005, courtesty Cheim & Read, New York)
‘Measures of Distance’ illustrates how artists have used ritual and the body to explore concepts of closeness and distance.
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
Portrait of Louise Bourgeois by Robert Mapplethorpe (take a look at what she's holding) Maman Discovered via Joanne Mattera blog--French / American artist Louise Bourgeois and her Fabric Works show just ended at Cheim Read in NYC.
thunderstruck9: “Louise Bourgeois (French/American, 1911-2010), The Good Mother, 2007. Gouache on paper, 59.6 x 45.7 cm. ”
Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
"Art is a guarantee of sanity......" Louise Bourgeois 1911 - 2010 Ode to Forgetfulness,2004 Cell VII,1998 Femme Maison, 1947 Feet,1999 I just heard that Louise Bourgeois died yesterday. She was almost a hundred years of age and one of my heroines. She's one of the artists whose work I've re-visited quite a bit recently. She was such an inspiration to me. A prolific artist who produced artwork almost every day of her life.....I'm sure it's having such a creatively fulfilling life that guaranteed her longevity. One of the attractions of Borgeois' work, for me, has always been her use of fabrics and textiles, and processes that would be considered intrinsically, domestic or feminine. One such piece, that has a beautiful concept, comprises a set of books made out of the curated textiles of her life, kept from as long ago as the 1920's. It's entitled 'Ode to l'Oubli', literally 'Ode to Forgetfulness'. Amy Newman of The New York Times, elaborated that this was in the 'Proustian sense'. She also informed us that whilst "many people's closet-cleaning cast offs find their way to the Goodwill. Louise Bourgeois made hers into poetry............her 36 page fabric-on-fabric book is an extraordinary and poignant object: a tactile diary of the long, trans-atlantic, unusually examined life of the artist." It's amazing the way that a scrap of fabric can conjure up a time and a place...a moment...in just the same way that a fragrance can return you to somewhere long forgotten. Also how the mind over time can play with that memory. I've probably referred to another of her textile works previously, the emotive textile installation, entitled Cell VII that she produced in 1998. I'm always attracted to installations that involve the use of light and lanterns. A further element that always compels me to take another look, has to be the use of clothing. As this work utilises both, it moved me a great deal. As does, much of the work of another French Artist, Christian Boltanski. He often uses clothing, sometimes piles of them in his installations such as Personnes,2010 that can't help but bring to mind images of those piled up in concentration camps like Aushwitz. When you learn of his heritage it's no wonder that these themes creep into his work. Reading Bourgeois' biography her influences soon become patently obvious too. Louise's surname appropriately reflected her social class, being born into a bourgeois family in 1911. Who at one time owned a gallery specialising in tapestries and later set up a workshop for their restoration. Her father searched for tapestries whilst her mother, along with their employee's, restored them. I seem to remember watching a documentary of Bourgeois' life that depicted women, bent-over dyeing wool, working the thread for this purpose. This along with her fathers promiscuity, Bourgeois' knowledge of this and her mothers acceptance, but failure to confront him, is the fertile ground that Bourgeois found much of the inspiration for her work. Even the huge metal spiders that she produced, because of their ability to spin thread represented her mother. She often used the spider as a the subject of not only her sculptures but also of the simple line drawings, that I love and that formed a huge part of her work. In later life, Bourgeois who was working up until the week that she died, despite all this, said that, "my childhood has never lost it's magic." I for one, can see that spark of magic in all her life's work. It's a life that is certainly worth celebrating.
Louise Bourgeois aka Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French-American, 1911-2010, b. Paris, France) - Untitled, 2002 Engraved Drawing: Wax Pencil on India Ink Prepared Board
In 1993 her representation of the United States in the Venice Biennale secured her status...
Louise Bourgeois in her studio at East 18th Street in New York, circa 1946. (foto: Louise Bourgeois Archive) Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II Dream II, Italy, 1967. (foto: Louise Bourgeois Archive) Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in 1967. (foto: Studio Fotografico, I. Bessi, Carrara)
With her posthumous exhibition opening at the MoMA this month, we revisit a lively interview between the artist and critic Paulo Herkenhoff.
Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
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frenchtwist: “ via todf, red-lipstick: “ Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911-2010) - Maman, 1999 Sculpture: Steel, Marble ” ”
Avec Ma Louise, nous avons été voir l'araignée de Louise Bourgeois à la place Neuve. L'étrange créature fait face à la statue du très stoïque Général Dufour. Le contraste est étonnant. L'animal est là pour quelques semaines,Il finira sa ballade à Bâle (BASEL)pour une exposition sur l'artiste. http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/ A SUIVRE...
Late textile works by the artist who helped pioneer the sculptural use of fabric in art This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). “I’ve always had a fascination with the needle,” she once said, “the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It’s a claim to forgiveness.” This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bed linen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological states. The catalog―which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Gropius Bau, Berlin―features works from numerous series, including the monumental Cell installations, figurative sculptures and abstract drawings. Dimensions : 9.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches
tumbleword: Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II (Dream II), Italy, 1967.
Louise Bourgeois: Portrait with darned cuffs / Louise’s writings to herself / Mantelpiece Louise Bourgeois fotografiada por Anne Leibowitz. I Have Been To Hell And Back. Louise Bourgeois 199…
26 October 2013 – 23 February 2014 at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911 - 2010) Untitled (Leave), 2004
