Louise Bourgeois, a site specific installation at Castello di Ama | Siena Tuscany 2009

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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois has been one of the most important artists of our time . She was born in Paris on December 25, 1911 and died in New York on May 31st. She was an French-american artist. She spent most of her artistic career in New York where she lived with her husband, the art historian, Robert Goldwater .
She became an established artist the last years thanks to a series of major retrospectives , among which are the MoMA’s, Guggenheim Museum’s (New York) and on this side of the Atlantic the Tate Gallery’s (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Capodimonte Museum (Napoli).

In 2009 Louise Bourgeois, thanks to the Galleria Continua mediation and the presence of her loyal friend and assistant Jerry Gorovoy , realized a site specific installation at Castello di Ama.
The delicate and powerful sculpture has been placed in an underground and ancient place of the Pianigiani Villa, in Ama hamlet.
In this video you will discover how is born the project and its deep significations thanks to the testimonies of two men:

-Marco Pallanti, winemaker at Castello di Ama since 1982 and patron of the contemporary art collection together with the director Lorenza Sebasti
-Jerry Gorovoy, long time friend and assistant of Louise Bourgeois

0:22 Marco Pallanti – Why Louise Bourgeois?
0:54 Views on Topiary located in the cistern
01:24 Marco Pallanti and Jerry Gorovoy – the human encounter, premise of the site specific work
04:44 Jerry Gorovoy talking about an equivalent between Ama and Louise childhood place (Aubusson)
05:17 MP–the birth of the work
05:42 JG–Topiary idea as wider project
06:06 MP- the prototype and its symbols
06:46 JG– plant symbol and relation to the place
07:13 MP–Relation between Louise and Ama, description of the place
08:14 JG–connection with the water symbol
08:56 MP– sculpture at Carrara Nicoli marble studio
10:15 JG–about unconscious
11:12 MP–installation “on site”
11:52 JG– about Castello di Ama
12:27 MP–the importance of the encounter
13:28 JG– the character of the place

“You have this relationship to memory, this idea of the things borne, the idea of the water, things being in the unconscious, knocked out in the open, yet it’s very strong, it’s life, it’s the idea of water which is the idea of the continuity of time and life.” Jerry Gorovoy
This video was realized by Alessandro Moggi using documents from 2015 ( Marco Pallanti interview) and from 2009 ( Jerry Gorovoy interview)
Front page photography credit : Nanda Lanfranco

The winery Castello di Ama is a cornerstone in the modern revival of Chianti Classico. It all goes back to an intuition that came to us in the early 1970s. We knew that the vineyards around our tiny Medieval hamlet, perched on a hilltop at an altitude of almost 500 metres, were capable of great things, and that the winemaker’s ancient craft could take new root here.
At Castello di Ama , wine goes beyond what our senses perceive. There’s another side to it, which whispers of the culture and the traditions of its land of origin. It’s a kind of centaur, half of it given body in the glass, the other half ethereal, ungraspable, a marker of difference. It’s an unfinished work, if you like: in order to appreciate it fully, to close the circle, you have to fill in the impalpable absence. Such thoughts led us in 2000 to launch the project "Castello di Ama per l'arte contemporanea”: art and wine working together to leave a contemporary mark on the future.

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