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The Artist's Gift to IMMA
Untitled, 2001
Artist: Louise Bourgeois (French-American b. 1911)
Medium: Pink Fabric and Aluminum (37.4 x 29.8 x 29.8 cm) and Stainless
Steel, Glass and Wood Vitrine (177.8 x 60.9 x 60.9 cm)
Photographer: Christopher Burke
Image Courtesy: The Irish Museum of Modern Art / IMMA
The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) was recently honored to receive a gift from Louise Bourgeois.
IMMA Director, Enrique Juncosa, was delighted to announce, “This generous gift
by Louise Bourgeois is a wonderful addition to IMMA’s sculpture collection. As
one of the most important artists of our time, her works command prices which
would be well beyond our acquisitions budget. We are all delighted that Louise’s
generosity will allow the Irish public to enjoy her work on an ongoing basis. We
hope to install the sculpture in the West Wing Galleries by the end of the year,
alongside other newly-acquired works, such as James Coleman’s film work,
Initials. The gift is also a tribute to the work of the Museum’s Exhibitions
Department, which has managed to tour IMMA shows to Britain, Italy, Spain,
Iceland and the US in the past year, and has further tours scheduled to Britain,
France, Belgium, Portugal and the US over the coming months. The Bourgeois piece
is the latest in a series of important acquisitions of sculptures by Michael
Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Cristina Iglesias and Alice Maher.”
The untitled piece, a front-facing fabric head, is one of a series of seven made
from a soft pink material which was originally a Bourgeois' jacket.
The gift celebrates the success of Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time exhibition organized and displayed at IMMA that ended February
of last year.
Included in Stitches in Time were three similar pieces
and it was the largest exhibit of the artist's work shown in Ireland and
subsequently traveled to Edinburgh, Spain and the United States.
Paris native Louise Bourgeois settled in New York in 1938. Her works don't fall into one descriptive category, spanning Surrealism, Abstract
Expressionism and Minimalism.
Her first love is sculpture but her oeuvre contains drawing, printmaking and painting.
Louise Bourgeois was honored to be the first female artist to have a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Bourgeois has
found success with installation such as I Do, I Undo, I Redo a 9 meter high steel structure commissioned for the grand opening
of the Tate Modern, London.
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