Louise Bourgeois at Tarmak22


21 January 2021
Louise Bourgeois at Tarmak22
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]


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