It was not only Hauser & Wirth that was proud and enthused to announce the inauguration of its new space at 23 Savile Row with a solo exhibition by the late Louise Bourgeois, For those lucky enough to stumble upon this new space and the Bourgeois collection, it was a rare find and the the most delectable of delicacies. As the most important female artist of our time, for seventy years she transformed thoughts and emotions into beautiful works of art in radical, complex, intense and excessively influential manners of work. This collection, 'The Fabric Works' are abstract and geometric drawings deriving from the juxtapositions of patterns printed on materials. In 2002, Bourgeois to weave thin strips of her garments together and from this developed later polygonal strips, which would read how different patterns of printed materials would compose when stitched together. Fabric for Louise Bourgeois must, in many ways, have been like returning to a long lost friend having played an important role in her life. Her parents owned a tapestry restoration workshop and from the age of twelve she began helping out by drawing in the sections of the missing arts that were to be repaired. In time as the thinking and creativity of Bourgeois was to develop and grow it would play an important part in her work. ‘I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole’. This beautiful collection is only showing until Saturday the 18th of December at Hauser and Wirth Savile Row, so run!
Text Katriona Flynn
Text Katriona Flynn
