Sentences with phrase «bourgeois fabric works»

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Bourgeois's fabric works are emblematic of certain overarching themes in her oeuvre, such as marriage, motherhood, sexuality, femininity, and domesticity.

Evocative of Louise Bourgeois's distinctively melancholic works, Schwartz's three - dimensional wall pieces made of upholstery fabric, jewelry, feathers, charms, and other every - day materials re-appropriate decorative motifs and transfigure objects into the unfamiliar, their readability and intentions rendered opaque.

Bourgeois produced approximately 60 works in the series, assembling found objects, artifacts from her daily life (clothing, fabric, and furniture), and sculptures within distinctive architectural enclosures.

The Savile Row gallery's inaugural exhibition was the critically acclaimed «Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works» curated by Germano Celant.

Fabric drawings by Louise Bourgeois integrate the artist's autobiographical locus with allegory and memory conjured from working in the family tapestry shop as a child.

The Savile Row location was opened in 2010 with Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works» curated by Germano Celant, confirming its name as a major presence in the city's artistic scene.

A French - American sculptor whose body of work in fabric, bronze and stone continues to influence subsequent generations of artists, Bourgeois was also a prolific printmaker throughout her storied career.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois worked for more than 70 years in a variety of materials — including wood, bronze, marble, steel, rubber, and fabric — to create a distinctive and expansive body of work.

This book edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and her New York studio brings together images of «The Fabric Drawings», a series of works that Louise Bourgeois worked on from 2002 until her death in 2010.

Among his books: Anselm Kiefer: Salt of the Earth (Skira, 2012); Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works (Skira, 2011); Piero Manzoni (Skira, 2009), among many others.

I'm thinking, for instance, of the works by Deborah Kass (well, unless Andy did it); Mickalene Thomas (the figure is a lovely slice of life, not fetishized); Louise Bourgeois and Ghada Amer (how many men are doing sex in fabric?).

Curated by Philip Larratt - Smith, Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious will be on view at the QMA Gallery at Katara from 20 January — 1 June, 2012, and will feature approximately 30 works from all periods of the artist's long career, including sculptures, installations, drawings and fabric works from 1947 to 2009.

An old hand at such juxtapositions, Hauser and Wirth offers an intensely curated pitch for older and dead women artists — a 1960 Eva Hesse painting, a Louise Bourgeois fabric piece, the tormented canvas «Mourning» by Maria Lassnig (aged 92) and a fresco - like work about the ages of women «after Giotto» by Ida Applebroog (aged 82).

The exhibition will showcase the wide variety of materials that Bourgeois used throughout her career, including carved wooden vertical forms in the late 1940s, amorphous and labyrinthine poured forms in latex and plaster in the 1960s, carved marble pieces in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cell installations of the 1990 - 2000s, and fabric and red gouache works late in her career.

Amongst these selected works, one can admire engravings on fabric as well as drypoints, aquatints, and lithographs on paper that Bourgeois often enhanced with drawings.

Focusing primarily on the artist's late work, they show how Bourgeois used diverse materials such as bronze, marble, steel, fabric and lead as well as text and drawing to investigate what it means to be human.

At Ms. Bourgeois's Brooklyn studio, the filmmakers Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach attend to her rambling, entrancing ruminations on the archetype of «the runaway girl»; the necessity of silence; and the power of fear and the primacy of memory in her work — of the mangled bodies of World War I veterans, of her mother twisting fabrics in a stream, of abandonment, of dreams.

Hauser & Wirth put together On the Fabric of the Human Body, a curated show of four artists organized by independent Curator Gianni Jetzer that included work by artists Rita Ackermann, Louise Bourgeois, Isa Genzken, and Paul McCarthy.