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Feb 18, 2021 · CNN — Louise Bourgeois’s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, “Maman” – French for mother – stands...
May 19, 2020 · Learn how the late artist's spiders, which tower over viewers and evoke her mother, emerged from her childhood traumas and early-career experiments. Explore the different sizes, materials, and locations of her iconic works, from Maman to Cell.
- Claire Selvin
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel. The spider itself is made of bronze, whereas the cage is made of steel.
- 440 cm × 670 cm × 520 cm (175 in × 262 in × 204 in)
- Louise Bourgeois
- 1996
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Spider is a giant bronze spider with a granite egg in its cage, created by the French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois in 1994. It is one of her many works inspired by the spider as a symbol of her mother, a weaver and a protector.
Maman (sculpture) Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (927 x 891 x 1024 cm). [1] .
- 9271 x 8915 x 10236 mm
- 1999
- Stainless steel, bronze, marble
- Louise Bourgeois
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Learn about the spider theme in Louise Bourgeois's art, a monumental sculpture Maman 1999 and other related works. Explore the artist's life, influences and techniques with making and responding activities for primary and secondary students.
Oct 7, 2017 · Explore the captivating complexity of the artist’s conception of spiders, from the intimate to the monumental, in this exhibition of her spider sculptures. Learn how Bourgeois used spiders as psychological and biographical references, and see how she created them in various materials and scales.
