Future Bourgeois: Phyllida Barlow, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Mignon Nixon in conversation

A panel discussion on Louis Bourgeois featuring British sculptor Phyllida Barlow, and art historians Elisabeth Lebovici and Mignon Nixon, chaired by Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley.

 

Louise Bourgeois is one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she produced some of contemporary art’s most enduring images. Bourgeois’s work is personal yet universal, rooted in the details of her own life, but reaching out to touch the lives of others.

 

In 2013 Fruitmarket presented I Give Everything Away, an exhibition of Bourgeois’ work on paper, featuring some of her most intimate work, both drawing and writing.

The show included Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings, a remarkable suite of 220 drawings and writings made between November 1994 and June 1995. Also in the exhibition were two suites of large-scale works on paper, When Did This Happen? from 2007, and I Give Everything Away, made right at the end of the artist’s life in 2010. A mix of writing, drawing and printmaking, these large works are both haunted and haunting.

A major ARTIST ROOMS exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art coincided with the Fruitmarket show.

 

To accompany these two exhibitions, Fruitmarket,  the ARTIST ROOMS Research Partnership, and National Galleries of Scotland organised Future Bourgeois – a symposium on new research on Bourgeois, which included the panel discussion between Barlow, Lebovici and Nixon.

More info on I Give Everything Away, including images and video, can be found in Fruitmarket's online archive.

 

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