Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire

Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Hauser & Wirth
Country
Switzerland
Published
20 August 2019
Pages
256
ISBN
9783906915371

Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire

An elegantly produced double portrait of the affinities and differences between two of the 20th century’s greatest artists

Coupling the works of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) produces a thought-provoking discourse on the artists’ formal and iconographic links. Inspired by archaic and primitive sources, both Bourgeois and Picasso explored and developed interpretations of fertility and mother deities; late in life, both artists focused on eroticism, sexuality and intimacy.

In summer 2019, objects from these pivotal 20th-century artists will be presented at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, marking the first two-person show in which a female sculptor’s works are put into an extended dialogue with those of Picasso. This beautifully designed book, with its cloth boards and title stamping, builds upon the complex conversation about gender the exhibition sparks, with texts by exhibition curator Marie-Laure Bernadac (former curator at the Louvre, Picasso Museum, and Centre Pompidou), Emilie Bouvard (art historian and curator), Ulf Kuster (curator at the Fondation Beyeler), Gerard Wajcman (psychoanalyst and writer) and Diana Widmaier Picasso (art historian).

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