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Item Number: 133149
Title: LOUISE BOURGEOIS : Structures of Existence : The Cells
Author: Lorz, Julienne (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783791354071
Description: Munich-New York: Prestel, 2015. 29cm., hardcover, 280pp., 90 color illus. Exhibition to be held at Haus der Kunst, Munich. Summary: In her seven decades long career, Louise Bourgeois (1911, Paris – 2010, New York) pioneered and initiated several key ideas such as the installation format, theatricality, and feminism that have since become prevalent in the artistic language of contemporary art today. Among her most innovative and challenging sculptural works in her extensive oeuvre are the "Cells", the series of architectural spaces and settings that would come to preoccupy her attention for nearly 20 years. The "Cells" act as intensely emotional microcosms: each of Bourgeois's "Cells" is a multi-faceted, and dense arrangement situated within idiosyncratic enclosures that act as charged barriers between the interior world of Louise Bourgeois and the exterior world that is the exhibition space. In carefully arranged, almost theatrical scenes found objects, items of clothing or fabric, furniture, or singular sculptures by Bourgeois create intensive atmospheres. As Bourgeois expresses it: "The 'Cells' represent different types of pain: the physical, the emotional, the psychological; the mental and the intellectual. But the question is, when does emotion become physical? When does the physical become emotional? It's a circle going round and round… Each 'Cell' deals with the pleasure of the voyeur, the thrill of looking and being looked at. The 'Cells' either attract or repel each other. There is this urge to integrate, merge, or disintegrate." (Louise Bourgeois, 1991). Haus der Kunst will assemble the largest number of "Cells" presented in an exhibition to date. The exhibition will thereby not only return to this key facets of Bourgeois's thinking, but also revisit the conceptual, architectural, and psychological emphases that are developed throughout the "Cells".
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