Louise Bourgeois in the documentary film "Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine." Courtesy Art Kaleidoscope Foundation

NEW YORK.- Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine, a new documentary film about the life and the work of the iconic artist by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach, will have its theatrical premiere on June 25, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City. The film will also be shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on September 26; and will open the Festival Artecinema Trisorio in Naples, Italy, on October 16. Additional U.S. venues will be announced shortly.

As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois, one the most important artists of our time, is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. As an artist, for more than six decades, she has been at the forefront of developments in contemporary art, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. At the age of 71, in 1982, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She is being honored again this year with a full career retrospective, which will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from June 27 through September 28, 2008. The exhibition will then travel to The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (October 26, 2008 through January 25, 2009), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (February 26 through May 17, 2009). The documentary will also be shown in conjunction with these exhibitions.

As director/producer Amei Wallach notes: “Starting in 1993, we filmed intense and sometimes hilarious encounters with Louise and her work in her Brooklyn studio and Manhattan home. We filmed her friends and her work here and abroad through the autumn of 2007. I can think of no other artist with either Louise’s screen presence or her generosity in sharing the deepest roots of her anguish and her art.”

In August of 2006, Marion Cajori died at the age of 56. First-time filmmaker Amei Wallach completed the film.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine

(2008, 99 mins.) Directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach. Edited by Ken Kobland. Cinematography by Mead Hunt and Ken Kobland. Produced by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach. Executive Producer: George Griffin, Art Kaleidoscope Foundation. Line Producer: Kipjaz Savoie. Featuring Louise Bourgeois. With Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Rosamond Bernier, Jean-Louis Bourgeois, Jerry Gorovoy, Guerilla Girls, Charlotta Kotik, Frances Morris, Robert Storr, Deborah Wye.

Louise Bourgeois in the documentary film "Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine." Courtesy Art Kaleidoscope Foundation.