Artist: LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Exhibition: Do Not Abandon Me
Museo Novecento, Firenze
For the first time in Florence, a selection of about one hundred works by Bourgeois is exhibited, including a large selection of late gouache drawings, sculptures of various sizes, and one of the artist's renowned Cell installations.
Bourgeois grew up in the early 20th century on the outskirts of Paris, where her parents ran a tapestry restoration workshop. Her childhood was marred by a complicated relationship with her family, the cause of traumatic experiences that became one of her main sources of inspiration. Bourgeois transposed these familial dynamics into her artistic practice, attempting to investigate the motivations of the psyche and the unconscious, and seeking to express that which is unspeakable and repressed. Over the course of her long and productive career, Bourgeois interpreted the creative process not only as a way of processing the past, but also as a form of exorcism, creating an uncanny poetics capable of alleviating her trauma.
The title of the exhibition, Do Not Abandon Me refers to Bourgeois unsettling experience of abandonment and the desire for connection. In her mature work, this often found expression in the mother-child dyad, which is understood as the basis for all future relationships. In particular, the gouaches dating from the last five years
of her career, which form the heart of the exhibition, explore the cycles of life through an iconography of sexuality, procreation, birth, motherhood, nurture, dependency, the couple, and the family unit.
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