Louise Bourgeois — Papillons Noirs, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, 2018–2019

Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, 2018–2019
Bifold gallery exhibition brochure / invitation
20 × 26 cm folded; 40 × 26 cm unfolded
Offset print on white stock; colour installation image to interior; text and exhibition details to exterior
Opening reception: Friday 28 December 2018, 6–8 PM
Exhibition dates: 28 December 2018 – 10 February 2019
Via Serlas 22, 7500 St. Moritz

Condition: Very good. Light handling marks and minor surface wear consistent with gallery use.

Original exhibition brochure issued for Louise Bourgeois: Papillons Noirs, the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & 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 & Wirth’s expanding international structure.

The brochure reproduces Bourgeois’s Cell (Choisy), 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.

Bourgeois’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.

A clean, scarce paper record of Bourgeois’s posthumous circulation through estate, foundation, gallery, and destination-market infrastructure.

Shipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships flat, protected in archival sleeve with rigid backing.