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Bourgeois and the most ambitious of a series inspired by the spider motif that appeared in several drawings of the artist in the 1940s and occupied a central place in his work during the 1990s, sculptures Spiders, bourgeois Presented as a tribute to her mother, who was a weaver, showing the duplicity of the nature of motherhood: the mother is protective and predatory at the same time. The spider silk used both to make the cocoon to chase their prey, if motherhood embodies strength and fragility. These ambiguities are strongly reflected in this gigantic mummy, which ominously on the legs that resemble Gothic arches and running at the same time as the protective cage and den as a bag full of eggs that are dangerously attached to His abdomen. Spider causes fear and fear, but its high altitude, surprisingly balanced on one of the light legs, transmits an almost touching vulnerability
Louise Bourgeois
Mama (Mother), 1999
Bronze, marble and stainless steel
927 x 891 x 1023 cm
Cast in 2001
Edition + P. A. 2/6
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa