Halloween Preview?

The decision to tell this famous sculpture today is not by chance 🕷

And yet, the purpose of this work is not to #frighten quite the contrary: as often happens, just go a little deeper and learn about the history of things to find out how different reality is from what it looks like.

☞ Do you know…

‣ The name of this gigantic spider – by Louise Bourgeois – is “Maman” which in French means #mother
In fact, the mammoth sculpture is not only completely harmless but rather represents motherhood. Because just like in our society this animal also plays a fundamental and protective role towards its children. It also symbolizes the #workingwoman as the “profession” of the spider is the weaver who was also a very common female trade in the past 🕸

‣ Measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide is among the world’s #largest sculpture and, in addition to bronze, the main element of which it is composed, it includes a sac containing 32 marble eggs. A very famous #tribute to the femininity and strength of women, exhibited today in different cities and in some of the most famous museums in the #world such as the Tate Modern of London, the Guggenheim of Bilbao and the Mori Art Museum of Tokyo

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⇒ Date: 1999

⇒ Material: Stainless steel, bronze, marble

⇒ Dimensions: 9271 x 8915 x 10236 mm

⇒ Site: not defined