An American Artist Born in France
Now through the beginning of June, our love it or hate it, all things to all people modern art venue, the Centre Pompidou, has a retrospective of nearly 200 works from the 50 year career of French-born, Amerrican-based painter and sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Bourgeois was born in France in 1911. She has cited her childhood in France, where she spent her youth working in her mother's tapestry repair studio, as a source of inspiration throughout 50 year career. After a stint studying math at the Sorbonne, she moved to the US in 1938 with her American husband, the art critic Robert Goldwater. She began her career in New York, with her first solo show in 1947.
The Pompidou exhibit traces the chronological progression of Bourgeouis' work, while highlighting the theme of the house or home which appears throughout her career, from her paintings, drawings and prints representing 'Femmes-Maisons', or housewives, in the 1940s, to her nest and den sculptures of the 1960s and the cage-like cell sculptures of the 1990s.
Due to the popularity of this exhibit, the museum recommends visiting on the weekends after 5:30pm, or on Thursday evenings when the gallery is open to 11:00pm. And why not? You can sneak upstairs to the posh Restuarant Georges when you've finished to think about art over a drink and a great view of Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr