Louise Bourgeois drawings
On display are drawings made by the artist between 1988 and 2007 that bear witness to her poetics over the course of a lengthy chronological period.
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.
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.
Louise Bourgeois
Internationally renowned artist, Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. Although she lived in New York City from 1938 until her death at the age of 98, much of her inspiration came from her early childhood in France and from her family relationships. Using the body as her primary form, she explored the full spectrum of human emotion. In her works she addressed themes such as memory, sexuality, love and abandonment, shaping her fears to exorcise them.
Louise Bourgeois contemplating GERMINAL, 1967 © The Easton Foundation ph Studio Fotografico, Carrara
