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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Maman...
during my daily visit to daily dose of imagery yesterday, i saw this...
captioned "maman is a giant $3.2M bronze spider made by louise bourgeois at the National Gallery in Ottawa. if you want to see the scale of it, this photo might help."
i then visited his flicker site, and saw another shot of the same structure...
at ottawa, canada
i was at that site on 2002's Christmas Day, i remember... but that's not what i was surprised about...
i was pretty surprised, because in tokyo's roppongi hills, we have this...
the spider structure at roppongi hills...
same??
i did more searches on the structure and found more of such spiders in places like washington DC, new york, london and russia...
at Washington D.C.
at Rockefellar Center, NYC
errmm... Neblina? Dunno where this is...
at Tate Modern, London, England.
forgive me for being such an art-idiot, but i was pretty excited with the finds...
i found that the sculptor is a parisien/american lady named Louise Bourgeois, and the name for the spider structures are Maman, ie. mum in french. and there are actually 6 such structures in all in the world, according to here.
and from here, i found out a little more about the Maman and Mm Louise...
...Bourgeois has used the spider to explore issues related to memories of her mother, who died when the artist was 20.
"My mother was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat and useful as a spider," she once wrote...
"Maman," includes an egg sack below its rounded belly. Constructed with steel mesh, it contains white polished-marble eggs that have an alluring, gemlike quality. These and other details give you the feeling that motherhood and family relationships are potent issues for Bourgeois.
hmm... used to think what the hell is this spider doing in the middle of roppongi hills... but i guess the next time i go to roppongi, i will view this sculpture in a different light...
posted by winz at 10:14 AM
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