Tag: Louise Bourgeois

21
Mar

Louise Bourgeois. Voyages Without a Destination

On Friday, March 24 at the Studio Trisorio, a retrospective exhibit of Louise Bourgeois entitled Voyages Without a Destination will be inaugurated.

On exhibit are four bronze sculptures and 34 drawings, half of which have never before been exhibited. Executed by the artist between 1940 and 2009, these works bear witness to the course of her poetics throughout her career.

An internationally renowned artist, Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. Despite the fact that she lived in New York from 1938 to her death, most of her inspiration was drawn from her early childhood in France and family relations. Using the body as a primary form, she explored the entire range of human emotions. In her works, varying from drawings to large-scale installations, she has dealt with themes such as memories, sexuality, love and abandonment thus giving form to her fears in order to exorcize them.

The works of Louise Bourgeois have been exhibited the world over. In Italy her solo exhibits were held at the Venice Biennale where her work was presented at the US Pavilion (1993), the Prada Foundation (1997); the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (2000), the National Museum of Capodimonte (2008) and the Vedova Foundation (2010).

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was nominated Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture (1983) and received numerous international recognitions: the Grand Prix National de la Sculpture from the French government (1991), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in Washington D.C. (1991), the National Medal of Arts from the President of the United States (1997). Louise Bourgeois was elected member of American Academy of Arts and Science and was awarded the French Legion of Honour medal (2008).

Louise Bourgeois. Voyages Without a Destination
March 24–June 17, 2017

Studio Trisorio
Riviera di Chiaia, 215
80121 Naples
Italy
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Image: Louise Bourgeois, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE MONSTER (detail), 2005. © The Easton Foundation/ Licensed SIAE 2017. Photo: Christopher Burke.

11
Apr

La sfida di Aracne – Riflessioni sul femminile dagli anni ’70 a oggi

La sfida di Aracne – Riflessioni sul femminile dagli anni ’70 a oggi
a cura di Angela Madesani
NUOVA GALLERIA MORONE, Via Nerino 3, Milano
31 marzo | 13 maggio 2016
Inaugurazione: 31 marzo, ore 18
Orari: martedì – sabato, ore 11 – 19

Artisti: Mariella Bettineschi, Louise Bourgeois, Silvia Celeste Calcagno, Daniela Comani, Bruna Esposito, Inés Fontenla, Nan Goldin, Meri Gorni, Rebecca Horn, Julia Krahn, Maria Lai, Chiara Lecca, Annette Messager, Shirin Neshat, Gina Pane, Cindy Sherman, Chiharu Shiota, Fausta Squatriti

Nuova Galleria Morone presenta La sfida di Aracne Riflessioni sul femminile dagli anni ’70 a oggi, curata da Angela Madesani. Da sempre, le donne sono state considerate le fedeli rappresentanti della Terra, nostra Madre Natura e origine feconda. Intuitivamente percepiamo questa analogia come vera, come qualcosa che incarna una realtà evidente e ci parla direttamente dell’Essenza del Femminile… Un’esposizione complessa, che indaga i diversi linguaggi della contemporaneità artistica attraverso il lavoro di 18 artiste. La rassegna, che prende in esame oltre quarant’anni di storia dell’arte, non deve essere intesa come una collettiva con i lavori di sole donne, ma come una riflessione sul lavoro di artiste che hanno indagato approfonditamente il tema in oggetto. Dai lavori di Body Art di Gina Pane a Louise Bourgeois, che ha fatto, nel corso degli anni, di questo tema il fulcro della sua ricerca. In mostra saranno i lavori di alcune delle più importanti protagoniste dell’arte internazionale da Annette Messager a Rebecca Horn, da Cindy Sherman, Shirin Neshat, Nan Goldin a Bruna Esposito, che ha vinto il Leone d’Oro alla Biennale di Venezia nel 1999. Una particolare attenzione sarà riservata a Maria Lai, una delle più intense artiste italiane della seconda parte del XX secolo, rappresentata dalla galleria, come pure Daniela Comani, che da oltre venticinque anni vive e lavora a Berlino e che si occupa di tematiche legate alla cultura di genere. Sono presenti opere di artiste di diverse generazioni, che hanno posto la loro attenzione su questo tema da Fausta Squatriti a Mariella Bettineschi ( con l’opera La vestizione dell’angelo del 1996), all’argentina Inès Fontenla, a Meri Gorni, il cui lavoro si pone a cavallo fra arte figurativa e letteratura, alle più giovani Chiara Lecca,Chiharu Shiota, Julia Krahn e Silvia Celeste Calcagno, vincitrice del Premio Faenza nel 2015. Il progetto deve essere inteso come dialogo tra i vari linguaggi espressivi della contemporaneità. Il titolo della mostra presenta un chiaro riferimento di natura mitologica, ad Aracne, abile tessitrice e ricamatrice che, conscia della sua bravura, ebbe l’ardire di sfidare la dea Atena in una pubblica gara. Un’ambiziosa e vittoriosa sfida, simile a quella proposta dalle artiste del mondo occidentale dal dopoguerra in poi, desiderose di conquistarsi un loro ruolo, ben al di là dei coercitivi limiti a loro attribuiti dalla società e dal mondo dell’arte sino a quel momento.

NUOVA GALLERIA MORONE
via Nerino n°3, 20123
Milano – Italy
T. 02 72001994
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26
Mar

Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: The Cells

Exhibition organized by Haus der Kunst, Munich, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

“Space does not exist; it is just a metaphor for the structure of our existence.” Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Working with a wide range of materials and forms, she created a body of work that extended over seven decades.

Over her long career as an artist, Louise Bourgeois developed concepts and formal inventions that later became key positions in contemporary art; these included the use of environmental installation and theatrical formats, and the engagement with psychoanalytic and feminist themes. Both her distinctive sculptural forms and her outstanding drawings and graphic works are second to none. Among the most innovative and sophisticated sculptural works in her extensive oeuvre are the Cells, a series of architectural spaces that deal with a range of emotions. Created over a span of two decades, the Cells present individual microcosms; each is an enclosure that separates the internal from the external world. In these unique spaces, the artist arranged found objects, clothes, furniture, and sculptures to create emotionally charged, theatrical sets.

Including the five precursor works to the Cells that first emerged in 1986 with Articulated Lair, Louise Bourgeois created approximately 60 Cells over the course of her career. This exhibition is the largest overview of this body of work to date.

Louise Bourgeois’s Cells are intensely psychological microcosms: situated within various enclosures, each is a multi-faceted collection of objects and sculptural forms arranged to evoke an atmosphere of emotional resonance. In almost theatrical scenes, these everyday objects—items of clothing, fabric, or furniture—along with singular sculptures by Bourgeois, create a charged barrier between the interior world of the artist and the exterior world that is the exhibition space.

This exhibition, the first solely devoted to analyzing the Cells series, contains the largest number of Cells ever presented together. It also includes important works from previous decades that led to the development of the series. This comprehensive survey brings to light key aspects of Bourgeois’s thinking about space and memory, the body and architecture, and the conscious and the unconscious.

Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence; The Cells is organized by Haus der Kunst, Munich, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Image: Louise Bourgeois inside (Articulated Lair). (Coll.: MoMA, New York) in 1986. Photo: © Peter Bellamy© The Easton Foundation / VEGAP, Madrid