Learn about three important works by Louise Bourgeois included in our presentation at Art Basel 2023. This group of works by Bourgeois includes the wooden sculpture ‘Untitled’ (1953), a rare example from her series of Personages, offering a glimpse into the exhibition ‘The God that Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko,’ curated by Philip Larratt-Smith at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse. ‘Spider IV’ (1996) showcases one of the artist’s most distinguished motifs, and ‘One Way Traffic’ (1946) exemplifies the first decade of her practice when she was primarily a painter. Born in France in 1911, and working in America from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th Century. For over seven decades, Bourgeois’s creative process was fueled by an introspective reality, often rooted in cathartic re-visitations of early childhood trauma and frank examinations of female sexuality. Articulated by recurrent motifs (including body parts, houses and spiders), personal symbolism and psychological release, the conceptual and stylistic complexity of Bourgeois’s oeuvre—employing a variety of genres, media and materials—plays upon the powers of association, memory, fantasy, and fear.
Related article - Dolce Gabbana SS24 Men's Fashion Show
Art Basel 2023
