LOUISE BOURGEOIS & TRACEY EMIN
Carolina Nitsch
Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present Do Not Abandon Me, 2009-2010, a series of 16 collaborative works created by Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Originating with Bourgeois’ 16 gouache drawings on paper of male and female torsos in profile, Emin ‘responded’ by adding handwritten text, line drawings and gouache. The collaboration was then printed at Dye-namix studio in New York with archival dyes on cloth in an edition of 18 sets with 6 artist proofs. Each work measures 24 x 30”. Do NotAbandon Me is published by Carolina Nitsch. Although generations apart, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin both are known for their confessional writing and autobiographical subject matter. They each confront the theme of emotional dependency and the fear of being separated and abandoned. In DoNot Abandon Me, they explore sexuality, identity, birth, gender and ultimately the need to feel attached to the “Other”.
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, moved to New York in 1938 and worked prolifically until her death in 2010 in New York. She painted and sculpted in the shadow of her male peers until 1982 when the Museum of Modern Art, NY organized a retrospective of her work (the first ever given to a female artist). A comprehensive, fullcareer retrospective of her work was organized in 2007 by the Tate Modern, London, in association with the Centre Pompidou, Paris. This exhibition also traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, MoCA, Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and was raised in the seaside town of Margate on the English coast. She studied printmaking at Maidstone College of Art in Kent and the Royal College of Art. In 2008 the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art held her first major retrospective, "Tracey Emin 20 Years," which subsequently toured to the Centro de Arte Contempoáneo de Málaga in Spain and the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland 2009. In 2007 Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Tracey Emin lives and works in London.
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, moved to New York in 1938 and worked prolifically until her death in 2010 in New York. She painted and sculpted in the shadow of her male peers until 1982 when the Museum of Modern Art, NY organized a retrospective of her work (the first ever given to a female artist). A comprehensive, fullcareer retrospective of her work was organized in 2007 by the Tate Modern, London, in association with the Centre Pompidou, Paris. This exhibition also traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, MoCA, Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and was raised in the seaside town of Margate on the English coast. She studied printmaking at Maidstone College of Art in Kent and the Royal College of Art. In 2008 the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art held her first major retrospective, "Tracey Emin 20 Years," which subsequently toured to the Centro de Arte Contempoáneo de Málaga in Spain and the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland 2009. In 2007 Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Tracey Emin lives and works in London.
Do Not Abandon Me, 2009-2010 Suite of 16: archival dyes on cloth Each 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm) Each signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0218 $325,000
Do Not Abandon Me #1: A Million Ways to Come, 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0219 $20,000
Do Not Abandon me # 4: Too much Love, 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0222 $20,000
Do Not Abandon me # 7: And So I kissed you, 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0225 $20,000
Do Not Abandon me # 8: I just died at birth, 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0226 $20,000
Do Not Abandon me # 10: It doesn't end (sexy mothers), 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0228 $20,000
Do Not Abandon me # 12: Come unto Me, 2009-2010 Archival dyes on cloth 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm) Signed by Emin and embroidered LB Edition of 18 Published by Carolina Nitsch BOU-0230 $20,000
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, moved to New York in 1938 and worked prolifically until her death in 2010 in New York. She painted and sculpted in the shadow of her male peers until 1982 when the Museum of Modern Art, NY organized a retrospective of her work (the first ever given to a female artist). A comprehensive, fullcareer retrospective of her work was
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organized in 2007 by the Tate Modern, London, in association with the Centre Pompidou, Paris. This exhibition also traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, MoCA, Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Tracey Emin 101 was born in LondonStreet in 1963 and wasYork raised10012 in the seaside town Wooster New
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lege of Art in Kent and the Royal College of Art. In 2008 the Scottish National Years," which subsequently toured to the Centro de Arte Contempoáneo de Málaga in Spain and the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland 2009. In 2007 Emin represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Tracey Emin lives and works in London.