Louise Bourgeois - pioneer of installation art

What exactly is an installation?

The technician would say:

A connection of different technical elements in a way that enables the created entirety to exercise certain functions. ”.

The artist sees it similarly, for him an installation also combines a wide variety of elements.

The artist -creating artist has often started with performing art, but then developed from two -dimensional into the three -dimensional space, often first as a classic sculptor. In contrast to a sculptor, however, he no longer wants to be limited by a material and its possible volumes, he often doesn't want to create any works of art that are independent of their spatial environment.

Installation in the visual art takes up as much space as the artist thinks it is necessary, so that installation often achieves dimensions that bind to a place. This place or space or the situation is often included in the artwork, the surrounding space becomes partly part of this three -dimensional art.

For an artist, it is always an artistic installation when the individual parts combine to form an ensemble with their own artistic statement.

It usually happens to the artist that in his three -dimensional representation he is neither limited to colors nor to shape material such as sound or stone or metal. The sculptures created by Louise Bourgeois in the spatial context are rather characterized by great enthusiasm for experimentation when choosing the processed ingredients.

That is why artistic installations are usually very interesting and very complex, and they can also be incredibly funny, such as: B. many of the installations that Louise Bourgeois made. Louise Bourgeois, born on December 25, 1911, is one of the first artists ever to develop mental freedom to express themselves in installations.

Louise Bourgeois - Development and Short Biography

The artist grew up in Choisy-Le Roi near Paris, in a family that offered her with a gallery for historical textiles with an attached restoration workshop creative activity in the handicraft area.

Otherwise, her childhood was less beautiful, her despotian father could not do anything with female descendants, only talked to the little Louise to make fun of her and cheated Louise's mother in front of her eyes. Louise Bourgeois formed small sculptures of her father during the meals of bread from bread, which she then destroyed.

This constant and creative compensation work and the help in the parental workshop led Louise Bourgeois into the artist career after studying mathematics. She went to Paris and developed a comprehensive artistic training, in addition to trips to Scandinavia and Russia, Bourgeois visited the State University of the Fine Arts Paris, the Académie Ranson, the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière (by artists). At that time, Bourgeois is already participating in group exhibitions and leads its own small gallery.

She also took art history seminars, and there she gets to know and love the art historian Robert Goldwater, in 1937 she married. In 1938 both moved to New York, where Goldwater had received a teaching position, and in 1940 they adopted their son Michel and in the same year they were naturally their son Jean-Louis, followed in 1941.

In addition to child -rearing, Bourgeois continues her studies at the Art Students League, even without advertising activities, her works in New York received attention. After her first graphic work was issued by her in 1930, her first painting individual exhibition took place in the Berta Schaefer Gallery in 1945.

I am what I do - Louise Bourgeois

In the mid -1940s, Bourgeois turned to the sculpture , the new works were exhibited in New York in 1949 and 1950, while the politically tendering artist and other exile -European artists are (without American activities "(without a row).

Although Bourgeois is highly valued by her artists' colleagues, she only moved back to the public at the end of the 1970s when her sculptures were exhibited from 1941 to 1953 in 1979 and the sculptures created in 1970 were shown in one exhibition, both in New York.

Until then, up to the age of almost 70, Bourgeois remained almost unnoticed by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1982.

This exhibition, which was also seen in Chicago (Illionois), Houston in Texas and Akron (Ohio), finally initiates the further spread of Bourgeois. First the works of art are shown in many other American museums, from the end of the 1980s their works can then be seen in a wide variety of European countries.

In 1992 Bourgeois can be seen at Documenta IX, in 1993 at the Biennale in Venice, in 1994 the Hanoverian Kestnergesellschaft showed its work, in 1996 another major retrospective took place in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

In 1999 the artist can be seen in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, and her life's achievement is also recognized by giving her by the Japan Art Association the “Nobel Prize of Art” , the Praemium Imperial.

This is followed by exhibitions in Melbourne (International Biennial 1999), at Documenta XI 2002, in the Berlin Academy of the 2003, in the Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin 2003/04 and in many other cities.

Late recognition for your avant -garde work

Since 2005 Bourgeois has occupied a place in the first dozen of the international art compass, in 2007 the Tate Modern in London was organizing a retrospective for the 95th birthday of the artist, at the age of 98 in the age of 98, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contempory Art in Los Angeles and The National Gallery in Berlin with it with it. In 2012, exhibitions took place on the occasion of their 100th birthday in Switzerland and in Hamburg.

Late recognition now finally underpins the importance of her work, the pioneer of installation art has used an incredible number of different materials and techniques and created a large number of interesting work.

bronze in public space or museum that the artist has created: these Maman's are well -meaning protection figures who created Louise Bourgeois in memory of their beloved mother.