For
the wooden piece in this exhibition, Bourgeois describes a «human kind of radar,» in which individual units relate as people do, «aware of each other, perceiving each other, and constantly adjusting to each other, as if by radar.»
Not exact matches
Her new works for the
exhibition consists of multiple
pieces of plywood
in various sizes, which she cuts into with a circular saw at varying depths revealing the textures and colors of the
wooden veneers lying below the surface.
Two main
exhibition galleries were filled with monumental altar
pieces, life - size portraits, some of the earliest still - life paintings
in Europe, full - length carved and painted
wooden sculptures of Spanish saints and more than 50
pieces of Spanish glass and ceramics.
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.
The individual Set
Pieces polarize between rugged (
wooden anal torture device) and sparkle (circular frame with solid beaded curtain), both designed and used to perform
in physical trance states: transcendent atrocity
exhibition through live penetration, ecstatic state through channeling spirit language.
Keimeier's Recycle Lights have earned a place
in the
exhibition «Adventure with Objects» alongside
pieces such as «the first curved
wooden furniture from Thonet, the seats and furnishings of Jean Prouvà ©, Charles and Ray Eames and Alvar Aalto, the domestic architecture of Le Corbusier, the first examples of tubular steel chairs by Mies van der Rohe
in the 1920s, and important
pieces by contemporary designers such as Ron Arad or Fernando and Humberto Campana»».