Fell in love harder than ever for the work of Louise Bourgeois today. Fabric drawings of patchworked webs, where you can see the tension softly pull on every stitch, and roses trapped lovingly in the heart of each vortex of mattress ticking and stripe. These lines accurately joining at pinpoints to create subtle optical illusions, yet clumsy enough to show they are crafted by hand. Two of my favourites... a colour field of inky blues cross hatched like children's paper games of woven strips... the transparent nature of silk giving the effect of a watercolour...
and this series entitled 'The Waiting Hours' ( 2007 ) where the web is like a moon or sun, the light refracting into a web of night/day over an infinity of ocean, or an infinity of sky.
I posted about LB once before... http://eyes-of-mine.blogspot.com/2010/06/rip-louise-bourgeois.html
... shortly after she passed away and was envious of friends Millie and Kerry who went to see these fabric works in Venice.
Now they are in London, & the show is on now at Hauser & Wirth on Saville Row, Soho...
http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/743/louise-bourgeois-the-fabric-works/view/
Worth killing some time for xxx
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