Église Louise Bourgeois
The Église Louise Bourgeois , the former recollect monastery Le Couvent d'Ô, is a small museum in Bonnieux (France). Works by the French artist Louise Bourgeois (* December 25, 1911 in Paris, † May 31, 2010 in New York City), who lived and worked in New York Manhattan since 1938, are exhibited. Today she is one of the great artists, her work can be seen in the most important museums in the world.
The church in the Luberon, built in 1605, is located below the village of Bonnieux in a valley designed as a park. The small church was secularized around 1800 and later served as a stable and silk manufacture. The current owner, a Parisian banker, commissioned the artist to design the church. Five objects made of different materials and in different sizes were installed in the church. In the main nave under the groin vault , instead of the altar, a bronze cross, whose crossbeams form two human arms, is set up on a simple iron console to the side of the cross, the pink Madonna and Child made of knitted fabric can be seen in a glass bell. Simple wooden chairs furnish the main room.
Hardly anyone has artistically processed childlike traumas and female roles, fears and secret desires as obsessively as Louise Bourgeois. This is expressed by the holy water font made of raw and polished flesh-colored Carrara marble near the main portal. The roughly hewn marble blank on the outside allows breasts ready for breastfeeding to grow inside the smoothly polished holy water basin. On the wall of the barren side chapel sits an oversized bronze spider. The largest work is a confessional set up free in the room consisting of two cage-like boxes with diamond-shaped latticework. Praying marble hands are set in a square frame in the latticework on the penitent side and there is a crucifix inside the chamber. A successful synthesis between the carefully restored church building and the fascinating charisma of the unique works of art.
See also
literature
- Alfred Werner Maurer : Architectural icons Provence, Côte d'Azur + Riviera , Philologus Verlag, Basel 2008.
- Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father - Reconstruction of the Father. Writings and interviews 1923 - 2000. On the 90th birthday of Louise Bourgois eds. Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. From the American by Tacisius Schelbert and Inge Presser, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3250104302 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 49 ′ 23.6 " N , 5 ° 18 ′ 21.7" E