Louise Bourgeois
Emotions Abstracted
Werke/Works 1941–2000
Exhibition catalogue

Contributions by
Robert Storr and Eva Keller

Edited by
Daros Services, Zürich
(Eva Keller und Regula Malin)

In collaboration with Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004

ISBN 3-7757-1461-8

Embossed linen,
144 pages,
65 color reproductions,
German/English

Louise Bourgeois

Over the past sixty years, Louise Bourgeois has created an incomparable oeuvre. Born in Paris in 1911 and a resident of New York City since 1938, she always starts with her own life and what she herself has experienced: “My goal is to re-live a past emotion. ... to re-experience fear. ... Fear is a passive state, and the goal is to be active and take control.”
With works from all phases of her artistic career, including central pieces like “Cell I”, 1991, Louise Bourgeois figures prominently in the Daros Collection. For her solo show at Daros Exhibitions, the artist’s studio and private collectors have contributed further works. The bilingual catalogue book to accompany the exhibition includes an essay focussing on “The Insomnia Drawings” by Robert Storr and a text on Bourgois’ works in the Daros Collection by Eva Keller. All of the works on view are reproduced in full color. The carefully researched appendix contains detailed data on the exhibited works, a biographical sketch, a bibliography, and a list of exhibitions.