Sentences with phrase «bourgeois giant spider»

It started with Louise Bourgeois giant spider and has allowed artists such as Anish Kapoor, Bruce Nauman and Rachel Whiteread to take over the 3,400 square metre space in the former power station.

Not exact matches

Anna and her class will study Louise Bourgeois's giant spider made in honor of the artist's mother.

It always seemed unlikely that anyone could match Louise Bourgeois and her giant female spider (2000).

The result is a compact yet liberated primer of Bourgeois's implicitly feminist art, its fecund repeating forms, alternately architectonic and fleshy figures, intimations of pregnancy and birth and, most famously, giant spider sculptures in bronze or steel.

To complement and expand on themes in the exhibition, Garage has collaborated with the Louise Bourgeois Trust and The Easton Foundation to present two large - scale installations: Maman (1999), a giant bronze spider towering more than 9 meters above the ground, will greet visitors in Gorky Park's Garage Square before entering the Museum.

There's a giant spider in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's new exhibition of Louise Bourgeois.

Louise Bourgeois was in her 80s when she created a terrifying giant spider that was the start of a creative roll still sparking with perverse thrills when she died aged 98.

The sculpture, called How It Is, is by Miroslaw Balka and is the tenth work in Tate Modern's annual series of Unilever commissions, which began with Louise Bourgeois» giant spider in 2000 and has since included an enormous sun, thousands of boxes and a giant crack in the floor.

Stepping off the elevator on the fifth floor, the visitor confronts the giant nested bronze spiders of Louise Bourgeois, and on a far wall, Rauschenberg's big picture «Port of Entry» (1998).

And in its dramatic Turbine Hall, the sense is that anything could be given house room if it deserved it — from Louise Bourgeois's towers (I Do, I Undo, I Redo, 2000; her tremendous steel spider had to wait outside) to Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in 2003 or Rachel Whiteread's Embankment (2005)-- heaped white boxes, like sugar lumps for giants.

Bourgeois's 1999 «Maman,» a giant metal spider sculpture that is one of her best - known works, was commissioned by the museum.

Though comparisons to other large - scale works, such as Claes Oldenburg's oversized soft sculpture, Jeff Koon's giant outdoor kitsch, or Louise Bourgeois» huge bronze spiders may come to mind, Busby did not arrive in the art world via the art historical canon.

Doha is also an important forum for international sculpture: a Richard Serra monolith stands outside MIA; one of Louise Bourgeois» giant spiders guards the foyer of the palatial Qatar National Convention Centre, where Qatar's Philharmonic Orchestra play.

Her giant spider welcomed the first visitors to Tate Modern nearly 16 years ago and Louise Bourgeois will again be a star of the gallery's # 260m extension when it opens in June.

Tate Modern is run by a brilliant woman — Frances Morris — who was instrumental in the shaping of the collection and helped to secure the giant metal spider by Louise Bourgeois for its opening in 2000.

As we walked down the ramp into the Turbine Hall for the first time, the sensation was one of awe, but the former industrial space, presided over by Louise Bourgeois» giant bronze spider was also slightly forbidding.

Influenced by the likes of Louise Bourgeois's giant spider or the massive minimalist sculptures of Richard Serra, the huge installation was designed on a scale that would make it worth taking to the galleries of the world, spreading the information that the Arabic world does, indeed, have a contemporary art scene.

Nothing defines Tate Modern quite so much as the giant metal spider the great modern artist Louise Bourgeois created for its opening in 2000.

This was expressed most powerfully in Louise Bourgeois's giant sculpture of a spider, with its sack of marble eggs, which she called Maman.

Rockefeller Center has been the backdrop for Jeff Koons's giant terrier puppy, fashioned from 70,000 flowering plants; Louise Bourgeois's nine - ton bronze spider; and Takashi Murakami's 30 - foot Buddha - like figure with multiple arms and pointed head.

At first sight Ethel evokes the spirit of Louise Bourgeois's spiders, giant forms built with steel, marble and bronze, created as metaphors of mother.