On the 12th of November, I went back to the Hauser & Wirth Exhibition for a talk with a Curator who accompanied Louise Bourgeois throughout her life and if anything probably played a role in her art work.
He obviously addressed the main dilemma of her trauma, fear and pain as a child whilst growing up.
He says that her work is a duality of past memories and present tragedies.
Her work was also mainly inspired by her parents Tapestry antique shop.
He described the Crouching Spider as having an aggressive element but also a soft and sweet element at the same time.
[POSITIVE and NEGATIVE]
He says it is a symbol of a mother saving her daughter from a fire. She is fragile.
Spiders are normally disgusting; they create food.
The food speaking metaphorically as food of the mind, emotions etc.
The Crouching Spider is a very ambiguous art piece.
Women artists were not highly recognised until around the 60’s.
Bourgeois found there to be an issue with Sex.
She liked to keep her work Formal but Personal at the same time.
She tried to avoid narration which is why her geometrical work came in.
He also said he noticed a pattern in her work.
He suggested it would start off rigid and then lead to softness and could also be a change of circumstance in her personal story.
‘Pain is the ransom of formalism’
A phrase that showed what her work was instantly about Pain that she was trying to resolve; in which she did through Art.
She liked to use that phrase because whatever your pain is, there is a limitation.
Pain you suffer cannot be a formalisation.
You have to communicate feeling not just a piece of Work.
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