Louise Bourgeois
On exhibit are four bronze sculptures and 34 drawings, half of which have never been publically shown before. These works, executed by the artist between 1940 and 2009, bear witness to the course of poetics ranging over her entire 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 at 98 years of age, her inspiration was mostly 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 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 works were shown in solo exhibits in the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1993), the Prada Foundation (1997), the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (2000), the National Museum of Capodimonte (2008) and the Vedova Foundation (2010).