Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

Carolina Nitsch

January 21, 2008

Louise Bourgeois

Hours of the Day

through February 2, 2008

http://www.carolinanitsch.com

Louise Bourgeois

Hours of the Day, 2006

One from a suite of 25 panels of natural cotton cloth,

Published by Carolina Nitsch and Lison.

Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present Hours of the Day, 2006, an installation by Louise Bourgeois. This exhibition inaugurates Carolina Nitsch Project Room, the gallery’s new additional space devoted to special projects and located in Chelsea, New York.

Themes of time and memory have been a consistent presence in the work of Louise Bourgeois, though her forms and materials have varied over the past seven decades; as she once stated ‘I travel in time, not in space’. Hours of the Day is a continuation of Bourgeois’ engagement with the passage of time. The installation displays a suite of 25 printed individual fabric diptychs — and a fabric book – in which Bourgeois juxtaposes each hour with text written by her.

Being a chronic sufferer of insomnia, Bourgeois is acutely aware of her sensations and surroundings, which only seem magnified during the long, lonely hours of the night. The passing of time, her memories, the qualities of changing light and ambient sounds are registered in Hours of the Day coupled with images of every hour and short texts. The recall of memories is inherently conflicted for Bourgeois — the fear of losing her memories — as well as her desire to forget painful experiences to achieve peace.

As Deborah Wye, Chief Curator of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art has aptly recognized, printmaking for Bourgeois, unlike most artists, has always been an important and intimate experience, indeed ‘this medium has bracketed her artistic life – she depended on printmaking in her earliest years and does so again now, in old age.’

Carolina Nitsch and Lison , New York, published Hours of the Day in 2006. The project was conceived as a 25 cloth panel installation in an edition of 7 (each 17-1/2 x 27″), as well as a cloth book in an edition of 15 (14-3/4 x 12 x 2-3/4″), both of which are on view.

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. Initially studying advanced mathematics at the Sorbonne, Bourgeois later studied art at the Ecole du Louvre. After marrying the American art historian Robert Goldwater she moved to New York in 1938 where she has lived since.

In addition to traditional materials Bourgeois has continued to explore her emotions and memories through a wide range of forms and materials, from latex, rubber, cloth, steel, found objects, with printmaking being an integral medium in her artistic practice along with sculpture.

At age 71 Bourgeois was the first woman to be accorded a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art. On the occasion of Bourgeois’ 90th birthday, an exhibition of her work was held in 2001 at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg in Russia. A retrospective of Bourgeois’ work was just shown at the Tate Modern, London. This exhibition will travel later this year to The Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and in 2009 to the Hirshhorn Museum,

Washington, DC.

To view the suite of 25 panels of Hours of the Day please go to http://www.carolinanitsch.com

For more information contact info@carolinanitsch.com

Upcoming exhibitions at Carolina Nitsch Project Room:

- NEW PHOTO — Ten Years: 16 photographs by artists from China for NEW PHOTO, the underground magazine and seminal forerunner of Chinese contemporary photography, with reading room

(Feb 9 – Mar 22, 2008)

- OLAF NICOLAI (Mar 29 – May 3, 2008)

Carolina Nitsch Project Room

534 West 22nd Street, Ground Floor

New York NY 10011

Tues – Sat 11am – 6 pm

Tel 212 645 2030, Fax 212 463 0614

info@carolinanitsch.com

http://www.carolinanitsch.com

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