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Bronze cast in front of the National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa

Bronze casting in front of the Guggenheim Museum , Bilbao

Bronze casting on Lake Zurich , Zurich

Bronze casting in front of the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Bronze casting in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City

Maman, 9 m high spider sculpture from a bird's eye view in front of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Maman (1999) is the largest sculpture from the Spider series by the artist Louise Bourgeois . She is over nine meters high and carries a bag containing 26 marble eggs. Maman is the French word for "Mama".

Maman (9.27 × 8.92 × 10.24 m, 8165 kg) is a key work for understanding Bourgeois' art: the work is a tribute to her mother, who worked in Paris as a restorer of tapestries , and so on, how the spiders, again and again tissue renewed. For the bourgeoisie, the spider was a friend, protective and helpful (in exterminating vermin).

Exhibition locations

Permanent

In addition to the stainless steel sculpture owned by Tate Modern , London , there are other bronze casts in the following locations:

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City , Missouri , USA
• National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
• Hermitage , St. Petersburg , Russia
• Guggenheim Museum , Bilbao , Spain
• Mori Art Museum , Roppongi , Tokyo , Japan
• Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul , South Korea
• Qatar National Convention Center, Doha , Qatar
• Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa , USA

Temporary

Bronze castings by Maman were or can also be seen in the following places:

• City Hall, The Hague , Netherlands , June 21, 2001 - September 11, 2001
• Nytorv, Copenhagen , Denmark , 2003
• Wendlinghausen Castle Park , Dörentrup , Germany , 2004
• Tuileries Garden , Paris , France , 2008
• Center Georges Pompidou , Paris , France , 2008
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston , Massachusetts , USA , March 27, 2007 - March 2, 2008
• Museo di Capodimonte , Naples , Italy , October 18, 2008 - January 25, 2009
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC , USA , 2009
• Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires , Argentina , 2011
• Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , 2011
• Bundesplatz , Bern , Switzerland , May 24, 2011 - June 7, 2011
• Bürkliplatz , Zurich , Switzerland , June 10, 2011 - July 31, 2011
• Place Neuve, Geneva , Switzerland , August 3, 2011 - August 28, 2011
• Fondation Beyeler , Riehen / Basel , Switzerland , September 3, 2011 - January 8, 2012
• Kunsthalle , Hamburg , Germany , January 23, 2012 - June 17, 2012
• Qatar National Convention Center, Qatar , January 20, 2012 - June 1, 2012
• Roppongi Hills, Tokyo , Japan , 2012-2013
• Qatar National Convention Center, Ad Dawha, Qatar , February 2014
• Palacio de Bellas Artes , Mexico City , Mexico , November 15, 2013 - March 2, 2014
• Moderna Museet , Stockholm , Sweden , January 2015 -

Web links

Commons : Maman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Photos and places of Maman around the world (Google Earth / Google Maps)
• Videos of the sculpture
• Geographical map of the Pappajohn Sculpture Park (PDF; 170 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tate acquires Louise Bourgeois's giant spider, Maman. ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tate Gallery, Jan 11, 2008 
2. ↑ Garden_Landscape OstWestfalen lip Louise Bourgeois, "Maman," Wendlinghausen castle park, community Dörentrup
3. ^ "Maman" by Louise Bourgeois comes to Buenos Aires , accessed on July 4, 2011
4. ↑ Thomas Allenbach: Maternal Monster: Bourgeois' Spider in Bern. In: Der Bund , Bern, May 20, 2011 ( online) , accessed on July 4, 2011