Louis Bourgeois Spiders in front of the GE Building

July 2001

Location: GE Building (RCA building) Rockefeller Center

30 Rockefeller Plaza, between 49th and 50th Streets

1250 Avenue of Americas
60th tallest building in the world

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a renowned French-American artist andsculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spider-woman. She is recognized today as the founder of confessional art. Her spider series was devoted to her mother, whom past away when she was 21. She then became obsessed with spiders. Her answer to the question why spiders is "because my best friend was my mother and she was as intelligent, patient, clean and useful, reasonable, indispensable, as a spider. The artist associates her own work with a web of emotions and memories that she weaves and unravels and weaves again.

I found this sculpture by looking up crazy sculptures. Have any of you ever seen Eight Legged Freaks??? Well, if you haven't you should watch it. The reason this movie is relevant to this sculpture is because in the movie the spiders invaded this town, and it looks similar to this sculpture which is awesome. Most people come in contact with this piece often but would not expect this type of piece in the middle of the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27_nhiYPeA [this is a short video of kids interacting with one of her spider sculptures]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!