Louise Bourgeois
Femme maison
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Jean-François Jaussaud a rencontré Louise Bourgeois en 1994 dans son atelier de Brooklyn. Passé au crible de ses questions, le photographe est finalement adoubé par l’artiste. Un premier rendez-vous a lieu au printemps 1995, mais à une seule condition : détruire les images si celles-ci ne lui plaisent pas…
Jaussaud accepte et passe le « test ». Il obtient alors carte blanche pour photographier librement l’atelier et la maison de Chelsea. Il reviendra pendant onze ans.
Ces images rares montrent l’une des plus grandes artistes contemporaines dans son intimité, au coeur de son œuvre.
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French-born Bourgeois emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, yet the nearly 60 years of adventurous work in sculpture, drawing, engraving and installation reproduced here reflects an admitted attempt to repair the childhood she escaped. In 150 illustrations (50 in color), we find a haunting, enigmatic exploration of sexuality and the home: ladders that lead only to the ceiling; a giant steel spider whose egg sac is a jar of blue fluid; arrays of abstract white marble forms that simultaneously suggest male and female genitalia, often placed in enclosed, almost soothing, roomlike settings. Bernadac, curator of graphic arts at the Paris Musee National d'art Moderne, treats Bourgeois's uncanny mix of domestic comforts and erotic terrors as pointing to the ultimate imbrication of our desires into the structures we create, formal or familial. Her interpretations, while sometimes didactic and often overshadowed by the artist's own commentary, provide a welcome chronological overview of this remarkable and still evolving career.
