Louise Bourgeois, Saudi soft power and Gerhard Richter at 90
The Week in Art
Is There a Difference Between a Tapestry and an Architecture?
Louise had some tapestries from her background, but then as she wanted to work, then she would get more tapestries to fill in. So here, what she did was this chair she found, and then she would cut the tapestry and pin it, both on the sculpture and on the chair. And there is a sort of very specific element to this. She attracted to ambiguity as wellbeaue. I know some people might want more resolution, but for me it's so pregnant with atmosphere, with enigma. There is at otof contradictory impulses.
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