Hauser & Wirth launches online exhibition of Louise Bourgeois drawings

Hauser & Wirth, the Swiss mega-gallery, has launched a new digital platform called Dispatches, debuting with an online exhibition of 14 drawings by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). The gallery, which already had a strong digital presence including a series of 100 artist films, closed its eight physical spaces—seven galleries in Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, and St. Moritz, plus an art center in Somerset, England—due to the health emergency. Drawing was a daily ritual for Bourgeois, used as a tool for self-analysis. She once said, 'When I draw it means something is bothering me, but I don't know what it is. So it's a way to exorcise anxiety.' The works on view capture her inner psyche through undulating ink, watercolor, and pencil marks, maintaining a tension between figuration and abstraction that parallels her sculptural practice.