"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.
Installation view, The Courtauld Gallery, London. Photo: David Bebber, © The Courtauld. Louise Bourgeois's art © The Easton Foundation
Louise Bourgeois: The Evanescent and the Eternal
"This marks the first major museum exhibition on Bourgeois in Korea in 25 years and features iconic pieces from the Leeum collection, including the monumental spider sculpture Maman (1999) and the evocative Cell XI (Portrait) (2000), alongside more than 110 works from throughout the artist’s career. The exhibition will also offer a glimpse into Bourgeois’s mind through a selection of her personal writings, providing audiences with a deeper understanding of her inner world and artistic motivations."
Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Black Days), 2006. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York