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...Louise Bourgeois, whose feminist sculptures used Surrealist methods of uncanny juxtapositions and evocations of the unconscious, insisted “Surrealism is anathema for me....
...“Psychoanalysis is my religion,” said the godmother of feminist art Louise Bourgeois....
...A plaster ball dangles tantalisingly out of reach of a curved wedge, within a metal cage, in “Suspended Ball”: a symbol of erotic frustration that was André Breton’s favourite Giacometti....
...I am tempted to add Louise Bourgeois’ late work to the mix: Bourgeois paved the way for today’s artists, who owe so much to the model of Surrealist thought....
...Jane and Louise Wilson’s photographs of concrete bunkers from the Nazis’ Atlantic Wall are anti-Romantic, but conceptually fascinating: brutalist relics from the most brutal of political regimes....
...Last year, it hosted a show on Louise Bourgeois, which opened less than a week after the sculptor’s death....
...She worked in Paris as an assistant to Fernand Léger, knew Constantin Brâncusi and shared an apartment block with Andre Breton’s surrealist gallery in the 1930s....
...‘Louise Bourgeois’, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London W1, to November 17, tel +44 (0)20-7287 2300...
...There is nothing remotely Gaulish or indeed Breton about a dish that features tomatoes as a main ingredient. A more sophisticated deriv-ation was required....
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