{"title":"Louise Bourgeois","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouise Bourgeois (1911–2010, Paris\/New York) was a sculptor, installation artist, and printmaker whose practice engaged with memory, the body, sexuality, family, anxiety, and repair across seven decades. Her work ranges from the early Personages of the late 1940s through the Cells of the 1990s and the spider sculptures of the \u003cem\u003eMaman\u003c\/em\u003e series, to late works in fabric, text, and drawing. She is among the most significant artists of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBourgeois held major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1982); the Tate Modern, London (2007–2008); and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Her estate is managed by the Easton Foundation. Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth has represented her estate since 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers exhibition invitations, brochures, catalogues, and printed matter relating to Bourgeois’s practice and posthumous exhibition history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"louise-bourgeois-papillons-noirs-hauser-wirth-st-moritz-2018","title":"Louise Bourgeois — Papillons Noirs, Hauser \u0026 Wirth St. Moritz, 2018–2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eHauser \u0026amp; Wirth, St. Moritz, 2018–2019\u003cbr\u003eBifold gallery exhibition brochure \/ invitation\u003cbr\u003e20 × 26 cm folded; 40 × 26 cm unfolded\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on white stock; colour installation image to interior; text and exhibition details to exterior\u003cbr\u003eOpening reception: Friday 28 December 2018, 6–8 PM\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 28 December 2018 – 10 February 2019\u003cbr\u003eVia Serlas 22, 7500 St. Moritz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Light handling marks and minor surface wear consistent with gallery use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal exhibition brochure issued for \u003cem\u003eLouise Bourgeois: Papillons Noirs\u003c\/em\u003e, the inaugural exhibition at Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth St. Moritz. The gallery opened its St. Moritz space with this posthumous presentation of Bourgeois, positioning the artist’s late canon within a luxury Alpine gallery setting and within Hauser \u0026amp; Wirth’s expanding international structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brochure reproduces Bourgeois’s \u003cem\u003eCell (Choisy)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1990, on the interior spread, with a text work from 1959 printed to the reverse: ‘The sound of a pebble that falls in the black and distant water of a well. the unconscious memories that are reborn.’ The object moves between invitation, handout, and miniature exhibition record. It does not function as a catalogue, but as a retained support for the opening moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBourgeois’s work turns around memory, enclosure, family, sexuality, anxiety, and repair. Here those terms are carried through the language of the cell, the well, the unconscious, and the black butterfly. The commercial setting is precise: an artist associated with psychic interiority and bodily vulnerability used to inaugurate a new blue-chip gallery address.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clean, scarce paper record of Bourgeois’s posthumous circulation through estate, foundation, gallery, and destination-market infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat, protected in archival sleeve with rigid backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hauser \u0026 Wirth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459442958674,"sku":"LB-PN-HW-2018","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bourgeois_Louise_PapillonsNoirs_Showhandout2018back.jpg?v=1778907129"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/louise-bourgeois.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}