Louise Bourgeois, The Destruction of the Father 1974. Courtesy Cheim and Read, Galerie Karsten Greve and Galerie Hauser & Wirth © Louise Bourgeois.

LONDON.- Tate Modern presents the first major survey in the UK of the work of the French born artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911). The exhibition spans seven decades of varied and prolific artistic output ranging from small scale experimental works to large scale installations from the 1980s and 1990s.
Beginning with her earliest drawings, prints and paintings, the show will feature more than 200 works in many different materials, including her most recent works using fabric. The exhibition will include well known pieces, such as The Blind Leading the Blind 1947-49 and Cumul I 1969 and Cell (Eyes and Mirrors) 1989-93.
This exhibition will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassess her work. Over a long career Bourgeois has worked in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the twentieth century, from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual art, but has always remained uniquely apart, powerfully inventive and often at the forefront of contemporary practice. Engaging in a wide variety of both modern and traditional techniques Bourgeois has explored her themes in a great variety of styles from abstraction to the realism of the ready-made. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21997