Avant-garde artistic works from Louise Bourgeois at MOCA Grand Avenue
Starting from October 26th, 2008 to January 25th, 2009, MOCA Grand Avenue presented a comprehensive exhibition of American artist Louise Bourgeois’s (born 1911 in Paris, France) and her works in more than a decade.
Bourgeois’s long and distinguished career reveals a vast oeuvre in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century—from surrealism to conceptual art—but always remaining distinctively separate, as an inventive frontrunner.
Bourgeois explores various themes in a range of styles, from abstraction to the ready-made. With over 100 works both modern and traditional, including her earliest paintings, sculptures in differing materials and large-scale installation works from the 1980s and ‘90s.
This exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly publication that provides an overview of Bourgeois works by Lawrence Rinder, director, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, on October 10th at 6:30 PM.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, is her fourth venue of an ambitious international tour which includes Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
250 SOUTH GRAND AVENUE,
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
Source and images credit: MOCA Grand Avenue and Louise Bourgeois.
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