Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (No.7) (1993). Bronze silver nitrate patina. 12 x 69 x 43 cm. © The Eastern Foundation / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy The Eastern Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.
On view both online and at the exhibition space Tarmak22 in Gstaad, Hauser & Wirth present a selection of sculptures and drawings by the brilliant Louise Bourgeois.
The Heart Has Its Reasons running until 3 February, exhibits works that explore the emotional and psychological aspects of Bourgeois' life from 1949 until the year before her death in 2010.
An ode to safety and a couple's happiness, a house sits upon one of the arms in Untitled (No.7), pictured here. Gleaned from experiences of love, family, and memory, many sculptures were borne of a therapeutic process in the wake of her tumultuous childhood.
Bourgeois' understanding that rational explanation is eluded as a result of our emotional and psychological experience of the Other, was a product of the teachings of Blaise Pascal who she came across while studying at the Sorbonne, Paris.
As Pascal once said, 'The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing'. —[O]
