Louise Bourgeois. Extreme tension
When: 20.10.2026 11:00
Where: 48.867022, 2.338909
Organizer: Admin
A major figure in contemporary art, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) built her work on the margins of the great currents that marked the twentieth century — surrealism, abstract expressionism, minimalism... — developing a deeply personal language that always has a profound influence on many artists.
Located in New York in 1938, she discovered the engraving in Stanley William Hayter's Workshop 17 — a technique that would become, with drawing, essential to her entire work. Engraving, drawing and sculpture feed each other; words in the images; gestures repeat themselves as rituals.
In 1995, the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou and the Bibliothèque nationale de France devoted two separate exhibitions to his graphic work, drawings on one side, engravings and books on the other. On this occasion, the Bibliothèque nationale de France received an exceptional gift from the artist: about a hundred boards covering the entire production, a collection enriched later by the regular donations of Friends of the BnF.
The Graphic Art Cabinet of the Pompidou Centre acquired recent drawings, mainly from the 1990s, with several consecutive donations from the artist, the Clarence Westbury Foundation and the American Friends of the Pompidou Centre.
Today, the Pompidou Centre preserves 91 works (drawings, prints, sculpture and installation) and the BnF more than a hundred prints as well as eight artist's books. By bringing together these two complementary funds for the first time, the exhibition allows us to understand the interdependence of drawing and engraving at Louise Bourgeois, and highlights the main themes that mark her work.
Tags: drawing, exhibition, art, sculpture
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/louise-bourgeois-extreme-tension-116770
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