Red Room (Child), installation.
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Title |
Red Room (Child), installation. |
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Creator |
Bourgeois, Louise (French-American sculptor, born 1911) |
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Date |
1994 |
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Subject |
Fantasy
Allusions
Children
Families
Symbols
Colors
Thread
Glassware
Lanterns
Lamps
Animals
Heads (Anatomy)
Hourglasses
Shelving
Pedestals |
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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) |
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Material |
Mixed media
Glass (material)
Thread
Found objects |
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Measurements |
210.8 x 353 x 274.3 cm |
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Technique |
Sculpting
Glassworking |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Installations (visual works) |
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Repository |
Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montreal, Canada) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.243, fig.129) |
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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. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-05.jpg |
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