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Title
Red
Room
(Child)
,
installation
.
Creator
Bourgeois, Louise (French-American sculptor, born 1911)
Date
1994
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Rooms
Eye-level views
Space (composition concept)
Space utilization
Fantasy
Psychology
Allusion
Children (people by age group)
Parents
Families
Symbols
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Symbolic color
Color (perceived attribute)
Red (color)
Spools
Thread
Glassware
Lanterns (lighting devices)
Lighting devices
Kerosene lamps
Lamps (lighting devices)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Animals
Heads (representations)
Hourglasses
Sandglasses
Timepieces
Found objects
Shelves
Furniture
Pedestals
Subject
Sculpture
Rooms & spaces
Interiors
Fantasy
Allusions
Children
Families
Symbols
Colors
Thread
Glassware
Lanterns
Light fixtures
Lamps
Animals
Heads (Anatomy)
Hourglasses
Shelving
Furniture
Pedestals
Description
"The
color
red
,
connotative
of
intense
passion
,
predominated
in the
two
cramped
spaces
forming
this
installation
.
One
important
theme
here was
regressive
psychological
fantasy
. But there was also a
sense
that
ancient
knowledge
was
being
recovered
. The
peculiar
glass
bottles
and
flasks
in
many
of
Bourgeois's
early
1980s
installations
related
to
alchemy
. Their
scenarios
also
seemed
to
conform
to the
logic
of
fairy
tales.
"
(Caption
,
p.243)
; "
Louise
Bourgeois
[…]
was a
presiding
senior
figure
of the
decade
,
exhibiting
a
series
of
small
,
room-like
'cells'
between
1991
and
1994
,
filled
with
strange
sculptures
of
body
parts
or
symbolic
'furnishings'
, and
constituting
further
explorations
of the
role
played
in her
psychic
life
by her
parents
. In
1994
she
exhibited
two
Red
Rooms
at
Peter
Blum's
gallery
in
New
York
.
One
was
designated
as that of a
parental
couple
, the
other
that of a
child
. The
parents'
room
was
impeccably
neat
, with a
closed
instrument
case
on the
bed
and a
strange
,
misshapen
object
hanging
ominously
above
the
bed
. The
child's
room
, by
contrast
, was
dominated
by
numerous
spools
and
enigmatic
glass
ornaments
.
Bourgeois's
mother
had been a
tapestry
restorer
and had
previously
been
invoked
by the
artist
via
spindle-like
forms
. In this
context
the
vast
quantity
of
thread
seemed
to
signify
the
amount
of
unwinding
and
mending
in
store
for the
child
as,
growing
up
,
it
was
obliged
to
recapitulate
its
origins.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.243
,
245)
Material
Mixed media
Glass (material)
Thread
Found objects
Measurements
210.8 x 353 x 274.3 cm
Technique
Sculpting
Glassworking
Work Type
Sculpture
Installations (visual works)
Repository
Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montreal, Canada)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.243, fig.129)
Rights
Collection Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal. Photo Marcus Schneider. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Cheim & Reid, New York. © Louise Bourgeois/VAGA, New York/DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-05.jpg
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