To whom it may concern
By: Louise Bourgeois & Gary Indiana
Contributors: Indiana, Gary
Publisher: Violette Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781900828369
Subjects: Abstract Art; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Description: To whom it may concern" is one of the final projects Bourgeois completed and is an apt demonstration of the enduring power of her work. Rich pinks, purples, reds and blues describe bodies comprising swollen bellies, heavy breasts, engorged phalluses and stooped torsos in a series of pairings on facing pages. Deceptively simple in design, the varying intensity and range of colour within each figure reveals a dynamism in each repeated coupling of these headless, limbless bodies: male and female at their essential, and the relationship between the two, changing but the same. Indiana's short, visceral but lyrical texts are interspersed throughout and form a conversation with these images, an unconventional non-narrative, part of a broader dialogue about the barrier of flesh, about desire and intimacy.