Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up
Louise Bourgeois
ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois is a touring exhibition celebrating one of the most celebrated and influential figures in modern and contemporary art. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) created a body of work over seven decades that was endlessly inventive, ranging from monumental installations to figurative sculptures and abstract collages.
This exhibition focuses on works produced during the last 20 years of her life, a period of extraordinary creativity, during which Bourgeois re-examined many of her lifelong concerns to create a body of powerful new work exploring identity, gender, childhood, family and memory.
For the first time on this current tour of ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois, Grundy Art Gallery presents one of Bourgeois’s monumental spider sculptures, Spider 1994, one of several important loans from The Easton Foundation in the exhibition.
Grundy Art Gallery is a beacon for contemporary art in the north-west with a year-round programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions and events and an award-winning learning and engagement programme. This is The Grundy’s second collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS, following a presentation of Roy Lichtenstein in 2019.
