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Biography
The French painter, sculpter, engraver and designer, Louise Bourgeois began her artistic career at her parents' tapestry restoring workshop. She studied Maths at the Sorbonne before deciding on the Arts. In 1938, she moved to New York where she studied painting for two years and joined the Art Students League. Her work was shown at the Brooklyn Museum Print Exhibition in 1939 and, during the Second World War, she worked with various Europeans artists such as Joan Miró and André Masson. Despite having taken part in diverse exhibitions with Abstract Expressionists, Bourgeois has never really been an abstract artist. She produced symbolic objects and drawings which express themes such as loneliness, conflict, frustration and vulnerability. In 1949, she exhibited her sculpture for the first time and, in the 60s and 70s, her work became more sexually explicit. Her work received greater recognition in the 70s as attitudes changed towards feminism and post-modernism. In 1992, she designed the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale and took part in "documenta" 9, in Kassel.
Exhibitions
Portrait of the Artist Anthony d'Offay Gallery, United Kingdom 25-04-1996 ~ 14-06-1996
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Accrochage Nº1, Selection of Portuguese and French Artists in The Berardo Collection Embaixada de França (French Embassy), Portugal 27-04-2005 ~ 15-10-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
A Look at The Berardo Collection Museu de José Malhoa, Portugal 23-07-2001 ~ 26-10-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
A Look at The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-06-2000 ~ 30-09-2000
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
A Colecção Berardo a partir do Atelier Brancusi Galeria Jornal de Notícias, Portugal 26-01-2007 ~ 24-03-2007
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Accrochage Nº1, Selection of Portuguese and French Artists in The Berardo Collection, 2005 Published by 90 Graus Editora, Lda. ISBN 9728964013
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
A Look at The Berardo Collection, 2000 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742839
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