Tate Modern: Artist Rooms
4:38 p.m.
02/20/17 - For the past years, the UK has been organizing a really interesting artistic program, called Artist Rooms: several museums and galleries dedicate an entire room to one particular artist. The choseen ones must be iconic figures of the 20th or the 21st century. The exhibitions are held simultaneously in 30 venues all over the island and the program is specially aimed to young visitors, providing access to the most important artists. More than 40 million people have already visited the rooms and more are expected since the project will last till 2019.
The Tate Modern in London is presenting French artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The exhibition includes a selection of her latest artworks together with a group of pieces from her earlier years. With 70 years of career and a constant self-reference, covering universal issues like death, life, love and fear, this artist has always caused surprise. Example of this are the many iron spiders she did in the 90s, associated to her mother, who spent her days knitting and sewing. Her family had a tapestry repair business and Louise grew up watching her mother work day after day: “I come from a family of repairers and restorers. Spiders are constantly repairing. If you break her net, she'll go back to it and fix it”.
Spider, by Louise Bourgeois (1995)
Materials: bronze, black paint / piece for wall
Spider, by Louise Bourgeois (1994)
Materials: bronze, silver nitrate, brown paint and granite
The bigger spiders carry a bag with granite eggs, because the artist wanted the show the special care they take to protect their offsprings. They represent the image of a protecting and repairing mother.
Spider, by Louise Bourgeois (1994)
Materials: bronze, silver nitrate, brown paint and granite
The room presented other works, displayed as in an antique cabinet of curiosities: pieces piled, one next to each other, a collection of objects that could have been found in the artist's studio. The spiders were of course on the spotlight and, under the careful watch of the guards, we were invited to walk around and under their gigantic legs.
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