LOUISE BOURGEOIS | Rare Language
Tuesday 25 June at 6.30 pm a Louise Bourgeois’ retrospective entitled Rare Language will be inaugurated at the Studio Trisorio at the Riviera di Chiaia, 215.
The exhibition is one of the stops on the Italian itinerary that pays tribute to one of the most influential contemporary artists, partnering the Studio Trisorio with prestigious museums such as the Galleria Borghese and Villa Medici in Rome, the Museo Novecento and the Museo degli Innocenti in Florence.
On display at Studio Trisorio will be 35 drawings made by the artist between 1947 and 2008 and 4 bronze sculptures that bear witness to her poetics over the course of a lengthy chronological period.
Louise Bourgeois' art is permeated with autobiographical memories that concern all aspects of her life, particularly her childhood spent in Paris, and her relationship with her mother and father have remained a profound source of inspiration because, as the artist herself has stated, they have never lost their mystery, magic and drama.
In Louise's works, the practice of drawing seems to accompany that of writing, a lifelong pastime that she pursued in her diaries, thus weaving the fabric of her most intimate memories.
If her drawings are creative spaces in which she jots down emotions and ideas, "threading them like butterflies", her sculptures are even more tangible forms, three-dimensional images made to exorcise the past and unconscious fears, thus overcoming her inner chaos. They are generated by memories that resurface from the body, which the artist refers to as the "seeds" of her works.
Abstract or spiral geometries, explicit references to female and male bodies, are the recurring elements of Bourgeois' artistic vocabulary, which is based on the need for immediacy, to express her state of mind, to narrate the complex relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings.
The exhibition will be open to the public until 31 October.
Upcoming exhibitions:
UNCONSCIOUS MEMORIES
21 June – 15 September
Galleria Borghese, Rome
NO EXIT
21 June – 15 September
Villa Medici, Rome
DO NOT ABANDON ME
22 June – 20 October
Museo Novecento, Florence
CELL XVIII (PORTRAIT)
22 June – 20 October
Museo degli Innocenti, Florence
Organized by Museo Novecento
images: Louise Bourgeois, Father and Son, 2004 © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by SIAE and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Burke; Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2003 © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by SIAE and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Burke.