Louise Bourgeois’ “Maman“, Bürkliplatz, Zürich

“Maman“ on tour The both fascinating and threatening monumental bronze sculpture of a spider titled Maman, or Mother (927.1 x 891.5 x 1023.6 cm) is key work for the understanding of Bourgeois’s art. On the one hand, it represents an homage to her mother, who was employed as a restorer of tapestries in Paris, and hence, much like a spider, incessantly renewed woven fabric. On the other hand, in Bourgeois’s eyes the spider was a universal symbol for the unending story of life, whose principle is continual re