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Though Hauser and Wirth Gallery<\/a>\u2019s current exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois focuses on the late artist\u2019s abstract sculpture, many pieces incorporate found objects or include an element of representation that gives each work an extra charge.\u00a0 Viewers first encounter a darkened gallery dominated by a metal submarine-like shape in two parts \u2013 one moving slowly in an out of the other on rails \u2013 meant to evoke mother\/child dependency. Less unnerving but still pointing to the female body, one of the artist\u2019s Poids sculptures features a humerously minimal assemblage of curving forms \u2013 a tire and two liquid-filled glass bowls positioned on an arched steel rod \u2013 that suggest a stooped, subservient form. Here, an untitled pink marble sculpture offers another spherical shape, this one with a chubby arm emerging from one side as if breaking out into independent life.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through April 18th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (With Hand), pink marble, 31 x 30 \u00bd x 21 inches, 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though Hauser and Wirth Gallery\u2019s current exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois focuses on the late artist\u2019s abstract sculpture, many pieces incorporate found objects or include an element of representation that gives each work an extra charge.\u00a0 Viewers first encounter a darkened gallery dominated by a metal submarine-like shape in two parts \u2013 one moving … <\/p>\n

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