Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.
"The first major exhibition of Louise Bourgeois in Taiwan… aims to offer visitors an intimate glimpse into the life and emotional struggles of this extraordinary artist. Through Bourgeois’s unwavering artistic spirit, the exhibition profoundly engages with themes of life, memory, and emotion, inspiring deep reflection on human existence and the inner self."
Traveled from the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Installation view, Fubon Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan. Photo: Wakusei, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
“Consisting of a selection of works from the 1960s up until her death in 2010, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape’ sets up a series of four interlocking dialogues that revolve around an iconography of nests, holes, cavities, mounds, breasts, spirals, snakes and water. This imagery corresponds to the themes and preoccupations that Bourgeois explored over the course of her career: the good mother, fecundity and growth, retreat and protection, vulnerability and dependency, and the passage of time. Her forms are expressed using such diverse materials as bronze, rubber, lead, aluminium, wood and marble. The exhibition foregrounds certain formal devices developed by Bourgeois, such as the hanging form, the spiral and the relief. As always in her work, there is an oscillation between abstraction and figuration."
Installation view, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. Photo: JJYPHOTO, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
"This major exhibition of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams at The Courtauld Gallery foregrounds their shared commitment to using humour and abstract form to ask important questions about sexuality and bodies. The influential critic and curator Lucy Lippard dubbed this kind of work ‘abstract erotic’, and in 1966, Bourgeois, Hesse, and Adams were the only women artists included in Lippard’s ground-breaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction."
Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s will be on view concurrently in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery.