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IMPRESSIONADES amb les vostres mamans! Quines aranyes han sortit avui del taller de Louise Bourgeois
Una passada poder compartir amb vosaltres la nostra passió per l’art! .
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IMPRESIONADAS con vuestras mamans! Vaya arañas han salido hoy de nuestro taller sobre Louise Bourgeois !
Es una pasada poder compartir con vosotros nuestra pasión por el arte!
P.D: mañana colgamos report! #artforkids #artforever #esculturas #louisebourgeois #monográfico #talleres #zoomers #arañas #artlovers #instaart #artistic #artsy #instagood #creative #photooftheday #instaartist
So happy to have my work in the company of masters. I made the first one 'the waltz' influenced by the movement of#camilleclaudel but also by the ungrasping timelessness of #anselmkiefer. So, having this work next to it is like a dream come true! I especially like the reflection of the garden as a reminder of spring in a winter - storm at sea - landscape. It's an honour to have my pieces in the company of #sculptures by #louisebourgeois and #davidaltmejd, each sculpting the body in a different way to express the complexities of life. 'Myofibril' was created as a way to show the growing process and interaction of any relationship. I wonder what they tell each other at night when the world is asleep. #alexandraleyremein #femaleartist #belgianartist #privatecollection #brussels #honour #artbrussels #inthecompanyofmasters #masterworks #sculpture #timelessness @alexandraleyremein
Louise Bourgeois created the first of her spiders in the mid-1990s, when she was in her 80s (seriously! slay my queen ⚔️) To her, spiders were both fragile and fierce—protectors AND predators. Partly a reference to her mother, partly to herself, they represented cleverness, industriousness, fear and elegance You might have seen the monumental examples in prominent collections: the @nationalgallery, the @kempermuseum, the @tate and the @museoguggenheim. Or you could come see the lovely example we have perfectly squeezed into our galleries—nothing short of a feat. Methinks Louise would be proud
LOUSIE BOURGEOIS
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Spider | 1997 | @christies
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“Art is a guarantee of sanity.”
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I love this quote by Louise Bourgeois because it embodies her personal motivation as an artist. The main force behind her work was to cope with her troubled childhood memories. In other words, she turned art therapy into an ultra-successful 70-year career. Not bad if you ask me.
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When she was young, Bourgeois discovered that her father was having an affair with her English tutor, who lived in their family’s home. This deeply troubling —and ultimately defining— betrayal remained a vivid memory for Bourgeois for the rest of her life. As if that wasn’t enough, her mother passed away when Bourgeois was just 22 years old. This sudden loss, coupled with her father’s infidelity, led to an intense fear of abandonment and a deep appreciation of motherhood, both key themes in Bourgeois’s work.
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Now that we know all of this background, let’s talk about that gigantic spider. Over the course of her long career, Bourgeois made countless sculptures, prints, and works on paper, but her defining artistic moment came in the later stages of her life, when she embarked on the iconic Spider series. Bourgeois started the series in 1994 at the seasoned age of 83, already a mother of three. As she grew older, Bourgeois became obsessed with the concept of motherhood, and the spiders were the manifestation of this obsession. Bourgeois used the spider, both a predator (a sinister threat) and protector (an industrious repairer), as a symbol of the mother figure. The spinning and weaving of the spider’s web references Bourgeois’s own mother, who worked in the tapestry restoration business. Hence, these works are, at their core, a tribute to Bourgeois’ mother. *cue goosebumps*
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