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Thursday 1 January 1970

Louise Bourgeois. Phalluses, spiders and guillotines

Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 September, 21.00
Louise Bourgeois. Phalluses, spiders and guillotines
Written and directed by Luca De Bei
With Margherita Di Rauso
Costumes by Lucia Mariani
MAXXI Piazza, Spazio YAP – admittance free

An enthralling and unpredictable monologue presenting the creative fervour of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. Knowingly unconventional, a modest genius, Louise Bourgeois was a remarkable interpreter of the feminine universe.

Making art is not a therapy,
it is an act of survival.

The Parisian sculptress who died in New York in 2010 at the age of 98 and a half, came to the attention of the general public at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and was an emblem of a century of turmoil, delicacy and violence (suffered), emotions and uniqueness.

Unjustly considered to be a scandalous and erotic artist, Louise Bourgeois was famous for her enormous symbolic spiders, her provocative, gigantic phalluses, her cages and her guillotines hoisted on the roofs of middle-class houses. This theatrical performance reflects the dreamlike nature of her works and reprises themes that were close to the her heart such as the family, the self and its doppelganger. The diary of a life searching for dialogue, which the stage presents to the spectator, recalling the role of infancy in adult life.

A portrait of Louise Bourgeois
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Forthcoming events
Friday 12, 19, 26 September and Friday 3 October | Ad occhi chiusi
Sunday 21 September | Le rovine di Adriano

Previous events
Friday 18 July | Magnitudo Emilia

This event is part of YAP MAXXI 2014 – Play with theatre
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