Louise Bourgeois – Antoni Tàpies
18 Oct - 27 Nov 2011
Louise Bourgeois
OEDIPUS, 2003. (Detalle)
Tela, acero inoxidable, madera, cristal: diez elementos.
177.8 x 182.9 x 91.4 cm.
Imagen: Christopher Burke
OEDIPUS, 2003. (Detalle)
Tela, acero inoxidable, madera, cristal: diez elementos.
177.8 x 182.9 x 91.4 cm.
Imagen: Christopher Burke
LOUISE BOURGEOIS – ANTONI TÀPIES
Rencontre
18 October – 27 November, 2011
From October 18th 2011 Soledad Lorenzo gallery is proud to present “Rencontre”, a joint exhibition of Louise Bourgeois – Antoni Tàpies.
During the 2011-2012 season the gallery will celebrate its 25th Anniversary and in honour of this event the gallery will be presenting a special programme with a series of exhibitions to commemorate its past 25 years in the world of art since its opening on November 6th of 1986.
Louise Bourgeois and Antoni Tàpies exhibition, held at Soledad Lorenzo gallery, is presented as a dialogue between them that shows a selection of their most recent works. Under the title “Rencontre” the exhibition proposes a meeting between two of the most internationally recognised artists.
Louise Bourgeois’s world is both physical and corporal territory. A territory which has established its reputation thanks to her extensive career and her prolific art work. When trying to approach L. Bourgeois’s intense private universe one can feel how the “creative act” has an important cathartic component for the artist. Her sculptural pieces reveal scenes from her personal life that relate sensitive moments from her childhood, such as the artist’s relationship with her father and her own search of sexual identity.
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing” –Louise Bourgeois.
Amongst the works of L. Bourgeois that appear in the exhibition “Rencontre” we can find: a steel cell with a black head inside it: Cell XVI (Portrait), 2000; two glass showcases, Hand, 2001, which represents a hand in red fabric and Oedipus, 2003, which contains a series of small pink figures which are also made of fabric; The fragile, 2007. There is also a series of 36 small format drawings done on fabric which present studies of her unmistakable iconography of the spider and the maternal figure, as a symbol of protection and intelligence. And finally we find a sculpture made out of steel, fabrics, dresses, tyres and cloth fabrics with a human form, Untitled, 1996.
Antoni Tàpies’s work also presents an important physical and corporal component, but in this case his reflection is directed towards another direction. His analysis is centred on exploring space and his own relation with the material itself. His existentialism is expressed in his painting through recurring symbols with reference to central themes that are prominent in his work such as life and death, love and pain.
“I think that a work of art should make the spectator feel puzzled, it should make him/ her meditate about the sense of life” - Antoni Tàpies.
As a whole his work has its own iconography as becomes evident in the icons he uses such as crosses and asterisks amongst other symbols. Tàpies has continued the pictorial tradition of art and expanded the field of painting by including in his art materials, objects and textures, as can be found in the technique termed matiérisme that predominates in works like: Armari amb collage, 2010 and Samarreta I mitjó, 2007. In his larger format painting Esfinx, 1989, we can find the characteristic aspect of his work seen in the way in which he recreates walls or partitions by means of material, to which he adds different distinctive elements such as signs that emphasize the communicative aspect of his work, similar to the popular art of “graffiti” with paint or incisions made directly on the material itself.
Both artists shared a close friendship although they were separated by their places of residence. They lived for most of their careers in United States and France respectively. It is interesting to point out in this sense that the first exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s work in Spain took place in the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in 1991.
Louise Bourgeois, Paris (1911 – 2010).
Amongst her retrospective and individual exhibitions are the following: The Beyeler Foundation, Riehen; The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ; The Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao.
Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona, 1923.
His individual exhibitions include: The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Gallery, London.
Amongst the prizes and Internacional awards he has received are: Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes (1990), la Medalla Picasso de la Unesco (1993) and el Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas (2003).
Rencontre
18 October – 27 November, 2011
From October 18th 2011 Soledad Lorenzo gallery is proud to present “Rencontre”, a joint exhibition of Louise Bourgeois – Antoni Tàpies.
During the 2011-2012 season the gallery will celebrate its 25th Anniversary and in honour of this event the gallery will be presenting a special programme with a series of exhibitions to commemorate its past 25 years in the world of art since its opening on November 6th of 1986.
Louise Bourgeois and Antoni Tàpies exhibition, held at Soledad Lorenzo gallery, is presented as a dialogue between them that shows a selection of their most recent works. Under the title “Rencontre” the exhibition proposes a meeting between two of the most internationally recognised artists.
Louise Bourgeois’s world is both physical and corporal territory. A territory which has established its reputation thanks to her extensive career and her prolific art work. When trying to approach L. Bourgeois’s intense private universe one can feel how the “creative act” has an important cathartic component for the artist. Her sculptural pieces reveal scenes from her personal life that relate sensitive moments from her childhood, such as the artist’s relationship with her father and her own search of sexual identity.
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing” –Louise Bourgeois.
Amongst the works of L. Bourgeois that appear in the exhibition “Rencontre” we can find: a steel cell with a black head inside it: Cell XVI (Portrait), 2000; two glass showcases, Hand, 2001, which represents a hand in red fabric and Oedipus, 2003, which contains a series of small pink figures which are also made of fabric; The fragile, 2007. There is also a series of 36 small format drawings done on fabric which present studies of her unmistakable iconography of the spider and the maternal figure, as a symbol of protection and intelligence. And finally we find a sculpture made out of steel, fabrics, dresses, tyres and cloth fabrics with a human form, Untitled, 1996.
Antoni Tàpies’s work also presents an important physical and corporal component, but in this case his reflection is directed towards another direction. His analysis is centred on exploring space and his own relation with the material itself. His existentialism is expressed in his painting through recurring symbols with reference to central themes that are prominent in his work such as life and death, love and pain.
“I think that a work of art should make the spectator feel puzzled, it should make him/ her meditate about the sense of life” - Antoni Tàpies.
As a whole his work has its own iconography as becomes evident in the icons he uses such as crosses and asterisks amongst other symbols. Tàpies has continued the pictorial tradition of art and expanded the field of painting by including in his art materials, objects and textures, as can be found in the technique termed matiérisme that predominates in works like: Armari amb collage, 2010 and Samarreta I mitjó, 2007. In his larger format painting Esfinx, 1989, we can find the characteristic aspect of his work seen in the way in which he recreates walls or partitions by means of material, to which he adds different distinctive elements such as signs that emphasize the communicative aspect of his work, similar to the popular art of “graffiti” with paint or incisions made directly on the material itself.
Both artists shared a close friendship although they were separated by their places of residence. They lived for most of their careers in United States and France respectively. It is interesting to point out in this sense that the first exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s work in Spain took place in the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in 1991.
Louise Bourgeois, Paris (1911 – 2010).
Amongst her retrospective and individual exhibitions are the following: The Beyeler Foundation, Riehen; The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ; The Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao.
Antoni Tàpies. Barcelona, 1923.
His individual exhibitions include: The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Gallery, London.
Amongst the prizes and Internacional awards he has received are: Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes (1990), la Medalla Picasso de la Unesco (1993) and el Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas (2003).