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Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Bite 72: Louise Bourgeois & Alex Van Gelder - Armed Forces, 2010

Posted on March 02, 2011 by niten
Louise Bourgeois, 2010, from the series Armed Forces
Utilising the talents of photographer Alex Van Gelder, Louise Bourgeois presents her hands - essential tools in the creation of her sculpture - as works of art in themselves. Sinewy and wrinkled, aged and used, yet also very much alive, these hands are fulled with personality and the evidence of a life fully lived. 

Photographed at the invitation of Bourgeois in her New York townhouse over the last year of her life, Van Gelder beautifully composes and lights Bourgeois's hands against a stark black background emphasising the physicality of her artistic production and her lived philosophy of art and life. Here Louise Bourgeois becomes a sculpture herself.


Currently showing at Hauser & Wirth Zürich.
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