Diary
Art Sounds: Louise Bourgeois
‘Art Sounds’ is our partnership with New Generation Festival, introducing weekly musical responses to works of art featured in our online exhibition program. The videos are specially recorded to lift spirits at this difficult time and raise funds for organisations on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19.
In global solidarity, this week we have the American jazz trumpeter Dominic Farinacci responding to the work ‘Untitled’ (1970) by Louise Bourgeois. The work is part of our online presentation, articulating different states of Bourgeois’s emotional terrain. Though her drawings constitute a very separate practice from her sculptural work, they retain a similar tension, oscillating between figuration and abstraction. Unique personal symbolism and formal motifs recur throughout, along with references to architecture, anatomy, geometry, and the natural world.
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1970 © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
‘Louise Bourgeois's words and drawings resonate with me on this very day, where we must be united and consistent in being selfless to save others. Her seemingly visual evocation of the soul as one whole, united continuous entity is something I was inspired to capture in my musical response.’—Dominic Farinacci
Explore our inaugural 2020 online exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois Drawings 1947 – 2007’.