In over sixty years, Louise Bourgeois has a distinctive oeuvre created. Her starting point is one's own life and experience. In the paintings and drawings of the early 1940s flowing dreams and visions of the young artist one. Ten years later, the three-dimensional works increasingly amorphous and self-related. These new sculptures arise from the direct physical contact with a material modeled. Bourgeois explores the Haptic to their experiences and fears to understand and to liberate. They experimented with traditional materials and new synthetic materials, such as marble, bronze, fiberglass and latex. Unlike painting and sculpture is drawing for Louise Bourgeois has always been a matter of course. In particular, the collection "Insomnia Drawings, 1994-1995, documented the richness of its formal and motivic vocabulary and provides unparalleled insight into the fresh thinking and way of working on the then 80-year-old artist. Drawing uses and transforms the sleepless nights, the expression of their existential anxiety are: "The purpose of art is the fear of defeat. Nothing more and nothing less. "Louise Bourgeois was born in 1911 in Paris since 1938 and lived in New York. She died 2010. (Excerpt "Daros Exhibition", Zurich) |
