For two years Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and Tracey Emin collaborated on the series of 16 drawings that make up DO NOT ABANDON ME currently on view at the Carolina Nitsch Gallery. Both known for personal and confrontational art, Bourgeois and Emin teamed up and revisited themes commonly seen in their work such as "sexuality, identity, birth, [and] gender" (from the show's press release). With Do Not Abandon Me, the two artists address "emotional dependency and the fear of being seperated and abandoned."
The project began with Bourgeois creating 16 gouache drawings on paper featuring side-views of masculine and female torsos. Emin then added her mark to them with text and line drawings. Minimal and raw, Bourgeois' figures display swollen bellies and protruding penises flourished with Emin's drawings of tiny, naked women and handwritten statements like - "I lost you," "And so I kissed you," and "Dark black lonely space." While subtle by these two fearless artists' standards, Do Not Abandon Me still delivers darkly emotional and intense works. Learn more at Carolinanitsch.com. Through November 13th.
And so I kissed you (top), Sexy mothers (bottom), 2009-2010
Left to right: Deep inside my heart, Reaching for you, 2009-2010
I just died at birth, 2009-2010
It doesn't end, 2009-2010
Left to right: Looking for the mother, I held your sperm and cried, 2009-2010
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