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Exhibition of Work by Artist Louise Bourgeois on View for the First Time in Latin America

SAO PAULO.- Tomie Ohtake Institute presents for the first time in Latin America the greatest exhibit of work by Louise Bourgeois: the return of the repressed, from July 8 to August 28, 2011. Bourgeois, one of the most well known artists of the 20th century, was born in Paris in 1911 and traveled and lived in the United States from 1938 until her final days in 2010. The exhibition opens with the famous spider Maman (1999) displayed in the entrance to Tomie Ohtake Institute, and in the interior rooms display a collection of 86 pieces. Her first sculptures, in which the spiral appears along with various forms and figures that figure prominently in her work, include the Arch of Hysteria, 1993; Spider, 1997, and the emblematic installations Red Room (Parents), 1994, and The Destruction of the Father, 1974. A solid and extensive collection of drawings and sculptures highlight Bourgeois’ radical thoughts and refl