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Gallery unites prominent French and Japanese female artists

(23 Feb 2017) LEADIN: A London gallery is pairing works by prominent female artists Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama. It shows how both explored psychological trauma and tried to master their fears through artistic creation. STORYLINE: One's from France, the other's from Japan and they're separated by 20 years of art history. But now London's S2 gallery, a contemporary art gallery operated by auction house Sotheby's, is pairing French-American artist Louise Bourgeois and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It shows how both prominent female artists laid bare their own psychological traumas to open new territories for female artistic expression. It's called 'Traumata' and features over 40 works by the two artists. Sotheby's brought together the works from private collections and art foundations to stage what's claimed to be the first-joint exhibit of Bourgeois and Kusama's works. "Both had psychological difficulties, they each underwent some treatment for their psychological conditions throughout their lives," explains co-curator Emma Barker. "Bourgeois was in psycho analysis for 30 years. Kusama also had a diagnosis of hallucinosis, so she would see these visions of spots that used to encompass her vision and she felt very de-personalised for this. "And, for both artists a means of getting over these traumas was to produce art and was to make things and to try and overcome and master their fears and traumas through the act of creation." The two artists were both profoundly affected by war, for Bourgeois the First World War, for Kusama the Second World War. Both artists used their platform to explore wider issues, such as gender and sexuality. According to Baker, they also had similar experiences when leaving their native country to pursue artistic careers in New York. "Bourgeois moved to New York in 1938 and Kusama would move 20 years later in 1958, so 20 years apart, but it had an incredible impact on their work and they both responded to the idea of being exiled from their homeland and how they dealt with that trauma," she says. "But then exile also comes into play with the art worlds that they were entering. So, as female artists working in New York, it was very prevalent that they were in these very male dominated art worlds and they were each trying to break into the very maschismic art worlds that excluded them and saw them as outsiders." In many ways, the artists' works don't look too similar. Bourgeois is famed for her spider sculptures and large-scale 'cell' installations, Kusama is known for these obsessive, densely-patterned polka dot paintings. But co-curator Marina Ruiz Colomer says there's still plenty of similarities. "There are these very obsessive gestures that both artists were doing, they might not look exactly the same but we have very repetitive forms in both artists' works," she says. "We have these kind of protrusions and these phallic forms that come throughout their oeuvre. And there are motifs that do repeat themselves, they might not be the same motifs, but they do repeat themselves in both artists' works. "They're both dealing with the body and organic forms so there are similarities." While Bourgeois died at the age of 98 in 2010, 87-year-old Kusama is still making art to this day. Both are credited for empowering a wave of contemporary female artists. "They were important artists in their own right, but they are very important woman artists and that is something that is interesting to remind ourselves of, they are dealing with what it is to be a woman artist, they are dealing with what it is to be a woman in general," says Ruiz Colomer. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...