• Shop

LOUISE BOURGEOIS LATE WORKS

When
24 November 2012 – 11 March 2013
Location
Heide Galleries
Admission

Free with Museum Pass

Free entry

Curator/s
Jason Smith

‘Louise Bourgeois: Late Works’ is the first exhibition in Australia to survey the work of this profoundly important artist since her death in 2010.

Focusing on the final fifteen years of her career, the exhibition looks at the use of fabric in Bourgeois’ sculptures and drawings and presents over twenty key, late works that have never before been exhibited in Australia.

Louise Bourgeois
Blue Days
1996
Cloth, steel and glass
292.1 x 241.3 x 205.7 cm
Courtesy of Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth
Photograph: Christopher Burke
© Louise Bourgeois Trust

Louise Bourgeois
Blue Days
1996
Cloth, steel and glass
292.1 x 241.3 x 205.7 cm
Courtesy of Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth
Photograph: Christopher Burke
© Louise Bourgeois Trust

Louise Bourgeois: Late Works installation view
Photograph: John Gollings

Louise Bourgeois: Late Works installation view
Photograph: John Gollings

Louise Bourgeois was one of the most inventive, provocative and influential artists of the twentieth century. Often hailed as the founder of ‘confessional art’, the familial, biographical stories that provided life-long inspiration for Bourgeois’ work are well known: her parents’ tapestry workshop where she learnt the value of art as a form of reparation; her father’s public infidelity; her mother’s betrayal and early death; her complex sense of abandonment; her constant analysis of self; her belief in art as an exorcism of demons and as a potential reconciliation with the past.

The exhibition features 18 sculptures, two suites of fabric drawings, prints and lithographs all of which come directly from the artist’s studio in New York.

Watch the installation of Louise Bourgeois: Late Works:

Principal Sponsors

Joan Clemenger Jennifer Darbyshire Helen Dannon Connie Kimberley Naomi Milgrim AO

Publication Sponsors

Robyn Wilson

Support Sponsors

Media Partner

Supported by

Loading