ALEX VAN GELDER / LOUISE BOURGEOIS

This is a unique and evocative collection of images chronicling the last year of acclaimed sculptor, Louise Bourgeois' life. Louise Bourgeois was an immensely influential sculptor and one of the iconic figures of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. She d ied in May 2010, aged ninety-eight. In the last year of her life, she invited the artist Alex van Gelder to stay at her New York tow n house and photograph her. More than purely a portrait project, she considered the collaboration to be an extension of her work, al lowing h...[Read more]