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1. Maman | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The sculpture is a monumental steel spider, almost 9 meters tall. The creature has a sac containing 10 marble eggs located at its underbelly.
Louise Bourgeois Maman, 1999 (cast 2001) Bronze, marble, and stainless steel, 895 x 980 x 1,160 cm, edition 2/6 Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa “The Spider is an

17 nov 2023 · Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW's major summer exhibition.
Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition

19 mei 2020 · Below is a guide to Bourgeois's sculptural practice and why later in her life she chose the spider as the subject of her work.
A look at the history and inspiration behind Louise Bourgeois's iconic spider sculptures.

26 jan 2024 · On 26 January, Maman was installed outside the entrance of Moderna Museet. It took twelve hours! Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental spider ...
On 26 January, Maman was installed outside the entrance of Moderna Museet. It took twelve hours!
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25 dec 2018 · The work is one of several arachnids Bourgeois made in the mid-1990s in memory of her mother, Joséphine Fauriaux, a tapestry restorer, who died ...
The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour

11 jan 2008 · Tate has acquired Louise Bourgeois's celebrated sculpture of a giant female spider, Maman 1999. The work is a gift of the artist and an ...
Tate acquires Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider, Maman: Press related to past aquisition.

The allusion to her mother as a weaver refers to the Bourgeois family's tapestry restoration business, in which her mother was the chief seamstress. Since 1984 ...
The artist, Louise Bourgeois, has been using spiders in her work since the 1940s, and in the 1990s began sculpting them into colossal forms like this. Surprisingly, she sees them not as ominous predators, but as a symbol for her much beloved mother. For the artist, whose work has explored themes of childhood memory and loss, the spider carries associations ... Read More

Like a spider, Bourgeois's mother was a weaver. Bourgeois grew up in Paris where she worked at her family's tapestry restoration workshop, run by her mother.
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This selection of artworks from the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? includes examples of the artist’s expressions of spiders. Some of these works are on display in the upper galleries of the exhibition and others lurk in the darkened Tank gallery below.

4 jun 2015 · ... parents, who restored antique tapestries as a profession. ... Bourgeois said of the spider works, “The Spider is an Ode to my mother.

Her parents owned a gallery in Paris where her father sold antique tapestries, while her mother ran the tapestry restoration workshop in Choisy-le-Roi and, ...
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... spider." Biography. Bourgeois was exposed to art and craft from a young age through her parents' tapestry restoration business. She was so skilled that ...
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11 feb 2022 · My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever.
Spider Woman: Louise Bourgeois - a review of this dark, disconcerting show at the Hayward Gallery in London.

20 jul 2024 · Mother Spiders are a variant of Big Spider exclusive to Downpour. They are large, agile, and have a green coloration on the ends of their ...
Mother Spiders are a variant of Big Spider exclusive to Downpour. They are large, agile, and have a green coloration on the ends of their quills. When killed, they...

24 aug 2023 · Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois grew up in her parents' antiques and tapestry restoration shop. ... Like Bourgeois' mother, the spider is ...
In this episode, we focus on the work of one French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Her eighty year career explored lifelong themes of childhood, motherhood, and family identity.

14 okt 2007 · Can you talk a little about how they came about? LB: The spiders were an ode to my mother. She was a tapestry woman, and like a spider, was a ...
In a rare interview with one of the world's greatest living artists, Rachel Cooke asks Louise Bourgeois to reflect on her extraordinary career.

In Bourgeois's art, the spider is a homage to her mother Joséphine. Together with Bourgeois's father Louis, Joséphine ran the family's tapestry restoration ...
French–American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) is considered one of the most innovative artists of the past century. A prolific sculptor, painter and printmaker, she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art. Drawing on her childhood experiences, Bourgeois explored a variety of themes in her art, such as family, the unconscious, sexuality and the body, and is renowned for her fearless exploration of human relationships across a relentlessly inventive seven-decade career.