Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [1] .

2022年3月18日 · Louise Bourgeois’s huge spider artwork, “Maman” (1999), casts a profound cognitive and emotional shadow as if it were a creature from a nightmare or a larger-than-life reflection of a deep childhood horror. The spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois is one of her most ambitious endeavors in her long career.

2020年5月19日 · Under its body, the large-scale spider carries a sac of marble eggs. One of six bronze casts of the original steel work stands grandly in an exterior plaza at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain.

2021年2月18日 · Louise Bourgeois’s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, “Maman” – French for mother – stands 30 feet...

2024年10月16日 · Bourgeoise’s spider sculptures were always large, but they got more massive between 1995 and 1999. Her largest spider installation was approximately 21 feet tall and showed a body and round head of a spider supported on eight stick-like legs.

Almost 9 meters tall, Maman is one of the most ambitious of a series of sculptures by Bourgeois that take as their subject the spider, a motif that first appeared in several of the artist's drawings in the 1940s and came to assume a central place in her work during the 1990s.

2012年6月7日 · Standing outside of the Tate Modern at one point, Louise Bourgeois' extraordinary sculpture, Maman (Mother), is a 30-foot-tall spider crafted of bronze, marble, and stainless steel. It is one...

2022年6月20日 · The Maman spider stands guard beneath the towering Roppongi Hills. It can be both iconic and unsettling to Tokyo visitors to marvel or shudder at. Its towering legs and gleaming eggs perfectly fit the image of a sci-fi film creature. The sculptor, Louise Bourgeois, created an unforgettable stop for photographers.

2024年5月12日 · Maman is one of the most iconic sculptures ever created. Its dimensions are monumental, and it can only be installed either outdoors or in an industrial building. The impressive spider stands high above the ground on eight tall and thin legs, allowing the viewers to walk underneath and around it.

The sculpture is a monumental steel spider, almost 9 meters tall. The creature has a sac containing 10 marble eggs located at its underbelly and its abdomen and thorax are made of ribbed bronze. It is the largest of a series of spider sculptures that Bourgeois created, based on a motif that she first depicted in a small ink and charcoal drawing ...