{"id":9382,"date":"2019-05-28T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:57:03","slug":"louise-bourgeois-in-the-rijksmuseum-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/louise-bourgeois-in-the-rijksmuseum-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Bourgeois in the Rijksmuseum Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is rare that an artist\u2019s oeuvre so closely reflects his or her life that it seems to directly embody specific events and feelings. The twelve Louise Bourgeois sculptures, on display in the Rijksmuseum gardens from this spring, will form an intimate journal of recurring themes in the life and work of the artist. Several of the works relate to Bourgeois\u2019s childhood, for example. The monumental works\u00a0<em>Spider<\/em>\u00a0(1996),\u00a0<em>Spider Couple<\/em>\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0<em>Crouching Spider<\/em>(2003) can be seen as homages to her protective mother, a weaver. The high-gloss aluminium sculptures of\u00a0<em>Untitled<\/em> (2004), hanging from the branches of the great wingnut tree, refer to her father\u2019s habit of storing chairs by hanging them on roof beams in the attic of their home. Motherhood and Bourgeois\u2019s own youth are recurring themes in the artist\u2019s work, as are fear, friendship, materiality and the body. <sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rijksmuseum gardens<\/a><br \/>\n25 May &#8211; 3 November 2019<br \/>\nOpen daily 9am &#8211; 5pm.<br \/>\n<sub>* source: press release.<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rare that an artist\u2019s oeuvre so closely reflects his or her life that it seems to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[520,986,987,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9384,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions\/9384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}