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GO SEE:Louise Bourgeois The Fabric Works at Hauser & Wirth gallery from Friday 15th of October 2010 Stefania Vourazeri


Image:UNTITLED 2008 Fabric and fabric collage © Louise Bourgeois Trust Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke

Louise Bourgeois’ exhibition: The Fabric Works at Hauser & Wirth gallery will open to the public on the 15th of October coinciding with Frieze Art Fair launching London’s busiest art weekend.

The exhibition will feature over seventy fabric drawings made between 2002 and 2008, as well as four large-scale sculptures. Made from clothes and other domestic effects accrued over decades, Bourgeois’s fabric drawings are abstract yet acutely personal works, retaining allusions to the materials’ past incarnations.

It is no coincidence that Hauser & Wirth announced the inauguration of its new space at 23 Savile Row with a solo exhibition by the late Louise Bourgeois since the artist “was one of the world’s most important living artists before she passed away at 98 years old in May2010,” the gallery says.


Image:UNTITLED 2005 Fabric © Louise Bourgeois Trust Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke

This exhibition is a must see since “it is a major Bourgeois statement and a stunning museum-quality show,” the gallery explains to FAD. The show is curated by Germano Celant and highlights a little known area of Louise
Bourgeois’ practice. These works represent an important part of Louise Bourgeois’ creative output between 2002-2008. It also offers a chance for audiences to engage with these acutely personal works.

The exhibition will be a revelation to even those who are familiar with Louise Bourgeois’ practice. A life-long hoarder of clothes and household items such as tablecloths, napkins and bed linen, Bourgeois cut up and re-stitched these, transforming her lived materials into art. Through sewing she attempted to effect psychological repair: ‘I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole’.

The Fabric Works will start on 15 October and will last until 18 December 2010.


Image:UNTITLED 2005 © Louise Bourgeois Trust Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Photo: Christopher Burke

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