Louise Bourgeois: from Pompidou to Guggenheim NY

Pompidou Cenre, Paris
Until 2 June

Solomon H Guggenheim Museum
New York
22 June - 28 September

If you haven't caught this majestic survey of 'La Maitresse' at Tate Modern or the Pompidou, you may have to catch it in the USA. It closes in Paris o 2 June and moves to the Guggenheim NY from 22 June (then on to LA and Washington into 2009).

What's to say, except to quote an earlier LF rave:

"The wonder of Louise Bourgeois is that her practice is steadfastly personal, refuses to indulge in facile art-historical or social references, yet sits at the hip pinnacle of late 20th century art, and she is revered as one of the most important 'feminist' artists of her age. This upper-class frenchwoman (who is reputed not to have left her New York apartment for a decade) has for sixty years pursued her intensely idiosyncatic work with single-minded purpose, producing extraordinary sculptural tableaux and objects loaded with potent overlays of meaning – by turns sinister, lyrical or ominous, distilling her simple materials into objects of archetypal power."

The retrospective is not too vast, but features most of the the major sculptures, many of the most important 'Cells', important recent work with fabric, and a large component of works on paper.

Go see.

A toute a l'heure.