Louise Bourgeois at Cheim & Read
Considered to be one of the most influential contemporary and modern artists of her time, pieces by French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois will be on display at the Cheim & Read Gallery in New York.
The haunting suspension art Bourgeois often fantasised about and became the pinnacle theme of her humanesque and alive artwork,will be the major theme of the Cheim & Read exhibition. Both her drawings and sculptures, which spanned throughout her 45-year career, demonstrated the countless ways in which she approached material, form, and scale. From the organic Lair forms of the early 1960s, to the cloth figures of the 1990s, the hanging heads of the 2000s, and the torqued spirals of shining aluminum made in the last years of Bourgeois’ life, her work shows the very physicality of each piece – its density and weight – yet is offset by the seemingly effortless, floating state in which they are presented.
“Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence,” Bourgeois stated.
Pieces such as her famous Arch of Hysteria, that suspends the male figure from the waist down, to the Quartered One, which showcases a hanging piece of meat often a common site within a slaughterhouse, will be available for view at the exhibition among many other of her iconic pieces.
A full-color catalogue with text written by renowned art historian and critic Robert-Pincus Witten will be available to compliment Bourgeois’ work.
The exhibition will run from Thursday 30 October 2014 until Saturday 10 January 2015 at Cheim & Read Gallery in New York.
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