Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 11 a.m.—MIDDLEBURY—Town Hall Theater in Middlebury will be presenting “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine,” a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary.
As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, she has created her most powerful and persuasive work that has been exhibited, studied and lectured on worldwide. Filmed with unparalleled access between 1993 and 2007, “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine” is a comprehensive and dramatic documentary of creativity and revelation. It is an intimate, human and educational engagement with an artist’s world.
Great Art Wednesdays is a series of matinee film screenings on Wednesday mornings featuring full length documentaries on the big screen about history’s greatest artists and artworks—from the past to the present day. This year’s series includes Alexander Calder, Leonardo Da Vinci, Al Hirschfeld, Louise Bourgeois, The Prado Museum, Easter in Art, Lucian Freud, and Frida Kahlo.
The run time for Bourgeois is 99 minutes. Tickets are $13/$8. Tickets may be purchased by calling 802-382-9222, at the Box Office located at 68 South Pleasant Street in Middlebury, Monday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., or online at townhalltheater.org.
