Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider Maman spider had to travel more than 2.5 thousand kilometers from the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto to reach, in collaboration with the NEON cultural organization, the channel of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Esplanade.
Thanks to the cooperation of the two organizations with a common denominator, the dissemination of art in public space and the rich parallel program for children and adults donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Greek public will have the opportunity for the next seven months to edit and talk freely. with the work of the emblematic American-French sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The great artist, although she worked for decades, her work attracted attention and wide recognition only when at the age of 71 she became the first female sculptor, whose retrospective exhibition was hosted at MOMA in New York.
The ten-meter-high bronze and steel structure, with eight legs and twenty marble eggs in its belly-cage, was created in 2000 by Tate Modern. And it is the largest of a series of steel spiders that Bourgeois began building in 1994, almost fifty years after making its first spider design, in 1947.
In whatever public space they have been set up in, in America and Europe, Louise Bourgeois spiders fascinate spectators.
This is due, according to the interpretation of the director of NEON Elina Kountouris, earlier today to the on-site revelation of the installation “not only because of the monumental size and the creepy realism of the works but also because they invite us to face the eternal anxieties and the ways in which we relate to the social realm.
Through her art, Louise Bourgeois expressed her deepest thoughts and fears. She managed problems and shaped her emotions: her engravings, drawings, textiles, installations and sculptures for which she became best known, exploring issues of guilt, fear, memory, motherhood and love. “Maman also reflects the ambiguous, contradictory and complex emotions surrounding her own experience of motherhood.”
As Louise Bourgeois herself has said, “I failed as a husband, wife, mother, hostess, artist, businesswoman, friend, daughter, sister, but I did not fail in the search for the truth.”
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