For the first time in Italy, an exhibition that includes works from all periods of Louise Bourgeois’s career will be inaugurated at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. The artist - who over the last few decades has become a symbol of modernity - will present a collection of works that trace the steps of her artistic production from the last century until the present day, in a knowledgeable reflection that unites poetry and individual assumptions with the ordered language of contemporary avant-garde art.

Born in Paris in 1911, she moved to New York with her husband Robert Goldwater in 1938, where she currently lives. It is here that she began her artistic career: an extremely vast production that uses the most varied of techniques, but always with a particular focus on the creation of sculptural forms. Sculpture involves the body and therefore has the power to exorcise demons; this is how the path of her work unfolds, a continual exploration that delves into the depths of her own personal traumas, fears and suffering. The early emotions of her childhood in France are transferred into the objectivity of small and large sculptures in a wide variety of material, from the solidity of marble to soft fabrics and synthetic materials.

The Capodimonte installation will be composed of approximately sixty works, including two new Cell sculptures that have never before been exhibited.