As an icon of feminist art, Bourgeois, who died in 2010, has been a role model for generations of artists and her art is more relevant than ever. Never-before together exhibited works will be presented in both the glass pavilion as well as on the ground floor of the gallery.
Image gallery
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The selected works deal with the central themes of her life, the effects of biography and memory, or rather the cultures of remembrance and models of self-assertion as a woman and artist, which are predominantly manifest in her series known as the “Cells.” Paux de Lapins, chiffons ferrailles à vendre (2006) is one such example of the “Cells,” and it stands in the center of the glass octagon. The enclosure presents a multilayered microcosm, an arrangement of flesh-colored materials and charged objects.
The work underlines Bourgeois’s continuous examination of birth and death, the becoming and decaying of the body. Its title is taken from a song (Skin of rabbits, scraps for sale) remembered from childhood that she would have heard from the street peddlers of Paris. Accompanying Paux de Lapins… are a suite of four large-scale glass vitrines and a series of aquarelles. This is where her sensibility for corporeality, gender and the psychosocial effects of the conscious and unconscious experience of the body come to life.
Opening hours
Do-So 12-18
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Participating artists
Louise Bourgeois
