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Spider is a sculpture by the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, created in 1994. It is one of her most iconic works, representing her personal and artistic journey through life and death.
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel. The spider itself is made of bronze, whereas the cage is made of steel.
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18 de fev. de 2021 · Louise Bourgeois’s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, “Maman” – French for mother – stands 30 feet...
19 de mai. de 2020 · Learn how the late artist's spiders, which tower over viewers and evoke her mother, emerged from her childhood traumas and early-career experiments. Explore the different sizes, materials, and locations of her iconic works.
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Explore the artist's expressions of spiders in various media, such as steel, bronze, fabric and tapestry. Learn how spiders reflect her themes of love, loss, memory and mortality.
11 de mar. de 2024 · Learn about the spider, the most successful subject of Louise Bourgeois, a symbol of the mother figure and opposing forces. Explore her artworks inspired by her childhood trauma, home, sexuality and mortality.
Overview. Inscription. Provenance. Bibliography. Overview. Louise Bourgeois used the spider as the central protagonist in her art during the last decades of her life. For the artist, whose work explored themes of childhood memory and loss, the spider carried associations of a maternal figure.
