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Louise Bourgeois ou l'art comme condition de santé mentale

Louise Bourgeois ou l'art comme condition de santé mentale | Gender and art | Scoop.it
Retour sur l'oeuvre d'une artiste inclassable qui a eu un rôle de pionnière en tant que femme dans le monde de l’art contemporain

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Why Louise Bourgeois' and Robert Gober's Feminist and Queer Uncanny Survive the Treachery of Art History

Why Louise Bourgeois' and Robert Gober's Feminist and Queer Uncanny Survive the Treachery of Art History | Gender and art | Scoop.it

Two concurrent exhibitions in New York at the end of 2014 confirm that the Surrealist legacy still informed some of the most vital and psychologically compelling art of the late 20th century. And judging from the rave response to the shows, it still informs, however critically and with any number of realignments in aesthetic and political priorities, a good deal of contemporary art and criticism today. The Heart Is Not A Metaphor, a retrospective of work by Robert Gober at MoMA, and Suspension, the small but captivating survey of hanging sculpture made by Louise Bourgeois at the Cheim & Read Gallery, both derive their power in large part from the near century-old Surrealist project of culling and mediating the Uncanny. Or to put it in contemporary terms, both shows and the response to them prove it is still possible to stimulate and even simulate the Uncanny in a culture tolerant of open sexuality and with little need to secret away representations of erotic drives and desires by vesting them in fetishistic proxies.

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Louise Bourgeois: New MIMA Exhibition Highlights Late Works

Louise Bourgeois: New MIMA Exhibition Highlights Late Works | Gender and art | Scoop.it

Louise Bourgeois, 10 AM is when you come to me, 2006.


"Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be presented in a new exhibition at Mima from 18 July to 12 October 2014. mima is the first associate partner to display this new ARTIST ROOMS exhibition.

Highlighting her late work, the exhibition contains an outstanding collection of pieces assembled for the national ARTIST ROOMS programme, including, Couple I 1996, Cell XIV (Portrait) 2000, Eyes 2001-2005, and three late masterpieces, 10 AM is when I come to You[sic] 2006, the cycle of 16 monumental drawings A L'Infini 2008- 2009 and one of Bourgeois’ final works, Untitled 2010."

 

Artist Rooms - Louise Bourgeois Late Works

18 July to 12 October 2014

middlesbrough institute of modern art (mima)

http://www.visitmima.com/whats-on/single/artist-rooms-louise-bourgeois/


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Louise Bourgeois | The Artist Who Brought Sexuality to the Public Eye

Louise Bourgeois | The Artist Who Brought Sexuality to the Public Eye | Gender and art | Scoop.it
Read about the legend of contemporary installation art and sculpture, Louise Bourgeois, who brought sexuality and psychoanalysis to the public eye.
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Camille Claudel, le génie enfermé

Camille Claudel, le génie enfermé | Gender and art | Scoop.it

Cinq très grandes sculptrices illuminent Avignon. Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Jana Sterbak, Berlinde De Bruyckere et Kiki Smith sont les "papesses" de la ville. Près de 200 œuvres magnifiques, au Palais des Papes et à la Collection Lambert, à l'occasion du centième anniversaire de l'enfermement de Camille Claudel à Avignon. 

 

Une légende médiévale raconte qu’au IXe siècle, on avait élu un personnage très érudit venu d’Allemagne comme Pape. Mais on découvrit ensuite que ce Pape était enceinte. C’était une femme qui devint Jeanne la Papesse. Elle et son enfant moururent lors de l’accouchement. Aujourd’hui encore, dit-on, une chaise percée permettrait à la fin d’un conclave de vérifier le sexe d’un nouveau Pape élu au Vatican pour s’assurer qu’il ne sera pas une Papesse.

 

Si l’Eglise vaticane reste toujours aussi fermée aux femmes, l’art, lui, a évolué et les plus grands artistes actuels sont souvent des femmes, comme le montre la très grande et magnifique double exposition d’Avignon.

Le moment s’imposait. Avignon se devait de célébrer celle qui fut, pendant près de 30 ans, enfermée dans l’asile de Montfavet, dans la commune d’Avignon, et y mourut, il y a juste 70 ans. L’hôpital y consacra une expo ce printemps. La collection Lambert a joint à l’œuvre de Camille Claudel celles d’autres "Papesses" de l’art du XXe siècle : Louise Bourgeois, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kiki Smith et Jana Sterbak.

 

"Les Papesses", à la Collection Lambert et au Palais des Papes, à Avignon, jusqu’au 11 novembre.

Infos : www.collectionlambert.fr et www.palais-des-papes.com

 

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Les Papesses : cinq grandes dames de l'art à la Collection Lambert Avignon

Les Papesses : cinq grandes dames de l'art à la Collection Lambert Avignon | Gender and art | Scoop.it

La Collection Lambert en Avignon et Avignon Tourisme proposent une grande exposition conjointe dont le titre renvoie à l’incroyable histoire de Jeanne la Papesse, un personnage légendaire qui, au IXe siècle, aurait accédé a la papauté en dissimulant son sexe féminin. C’est sous l’égide de cette figure emblématique qu’ont été sélectionnées cinq femmes artistes, telles des papesses de l’art moderne et contemporain : Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak et Berlinde de Bruyckere.

 

Les Papesses

Collection Lambert en Avignon / Palais des Papes, Avignon

Du 9 juin au 11 novembre 2013

 

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Louise Bourgeois | e-flux

Louise Bourgeois | e-flux | Gender and art | Scoop.it

"Over her long career as an artist, Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) developed concepts and formal inventions that later became key positions in contemporary art; these included the use of environmental installation and theatrical formats, and the engagement with psychoanalytic and feminist themes. Both her distinctive sculptural forms and her outstanding drawings and graphic works are second to none. Among the most innovative and sophisticated sculptural works in her extensive Œuvre are the “Cells,” a series of architectural spaces that deal with a range of emotions."

 

Louise Bourgeois

Structures of Existence: The Cells

27 February–2 August 2015

Haus der Kunst, Munich

http://www.hausderkunst.de/en/

 

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Exhibition of hanging works by French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois opens at Cheim & Read

Exhibition of hanging works by French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois opens at Cheim & Read | Gender and art | Scoop.it

Louise Bourgeis, Legs, 2001.


NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of hanging works by renowned French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Robert Pincus-Witten.

The sculptures in this exhibition all hang from the ceiling. Along with a group of drawings from the 1940s, in which pendulous forms are delineated in black ink, the selection of works traces the theme of suspension throughout Bourgeois’s long career. Spanning more than forty-five years – from the organic Lair forms of the early 1960s and the Janus series of 1968, 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’s life – they demonstrate the myriad ways in which she approached material, form, and scale.

 

Louise Bourgeois : Suspension

October 30, 2014 - January 10, 2015

Cheim & Read, New York

http://www.cheimread.com/

 

 

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Louise Bourgeois, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | The Arts Desk

Louise Bourgeois, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | The Arts Desk | Gender and art | Scoop.it

Louise Bourgeois, 10 AM Is When You Come To Me, 2006

 

There’s a giant spider in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s new exhibition of Louise Bourgeois. Her trademark spider and the fact that she lived to 98 – working into her final days – are probably two of the best-known things about her. The story spun by the spider and the other exhibits, in an exhibition entitled A Woman Without Secrets, makes a fascinating walk through the final years and lifelong obsessions of the French-born artist who did not come to real prominence until her early 70s in her adopted USA. As the Guerrilla Girls feminist group remarked, with Bourgeois in mind: what can a woman artist look forward to in a man’s world? Knowing your career might pick up over 80."


Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 18 May 2014.

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/artist-rooms-louise-bourgeois-a-woman-without-secrets



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MoMA | Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books

MoMA | Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books | Gender and art | Scoop.it

This website will eventually contain some 3,500 images documenting the complete prints and illustrated books of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), most of which are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Designed to highlight the artist’s creative process, the site emphasizes evolving print compositions and comparative relationships between prints, drawings, and sculptures. Documentation will be added incrementally, by theme, once a year.

 

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"Les Papesses" à Avignon, cinq femmes sculpteurs occupent le Palais des Papes

"Les Papesses" à  Avignon, cinq femmes sculpteurs occupent le Palais des Papes | Gender and art | Scoop.it

The Welcoming Hands, Louise Bourgeois, 1996

 

La collection Lambert et Avignon Tourisme se sont associés pour proposer jusqu'en novembre une grande exposition intitulée "LES PAPESSES".  Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Strebak et Berlinde de Bruyckere, cinq génies de la sculpture honorées par le titre de "papesses" de l'art moderne et contemporain.  

 

L'exposition tient son titre du personnage "Jeanne la Papesse", qui, d'après la légende, fût élue pape et régna au IXème siècle. Un pontificat qui pris fin lorsque l'on découvrit qu'elle était une femme après qu'elle eu mis au monde un enfant lors d'une procession publique. C'est donc sous l'égide de cette figure médiévale qu'ont été choisies les cinq femmes artistes représentéees.

 

Exposition "Les Papesses" jusqu'au 11 novembre 2013 à Avignon.

Les oeuvres monumentales sont à découvrir au Palais des Papes, les petites sculptures et oeuvres sur papier à la Collection Lambert.

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Louise Bourgeois: Late Works - Heide Museum of Modern Art - 24 November 2012 to 11 March 2013

Louise Bourgeois: Late Works - Heide Museum of Modern Art - 24 November 2012 to 11 March 2013 | Gender and art | Scoop.it

"Louise Bourgeois: Late Works is the first exhibition in Australia to survey the work of this profoundly important artist since her death in 2010. Focusing on the final fifteen years of her career, the exhibition looks at the use of fabric in Bourgeois' sculptures and drawings and  presents over twenty key, late works that have never before been exhibited in Australia..."

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