Otto Zitko and Louise Bourgeois

Me, Myself and I

This event has already taken place and ended on 4 Jul 2010

"It is in the space between inner and outer worlds, which is also the space between people; the transitional space; that intimate relationships and creativity occur." D.W Winnicott

Austrian artist, Otto Zitko's expansive, abstract drawings, improvised across the walls of cultural institutions around the world, seem to emerge from an unbounded desire to cover every surface; a primal urge to contain the whole of reality within a subjective cocoon of unbroken lines. For Arnolfini, in his first exhibition in the UK, Zitko will make an all-enveloping drawing intervention, in situ, throughout the building, stretching across three floors.

In response to Zitko's seemingly omnipotent projection, Louise Bourgeois presents an intensely personal suite of sixty drawings called JE T'AIME, made in 2005, which, by contrast, seem to emphasize the centrality of relationships in what it is to be human. Bourgeois who died on 31 May this year, described these drawings as being "about the marking of time while waiting for someone special to arrive".

Link here to read more about Louise Bourgeois' life and work.

Exhibition tours
You can hear more about the exhibition in free, informal tours on some Saturdays.   

Downloads

Me, Myself and I Exhibition Guide (PDF document, 145Kb)

Lingua Franca

During 2010, Arnolfini presents a series of exhibitions and events related to the idea of Lingua Franca: looking at intermediary language, linguistic translation and the subjectivity of language.

As part of Lingua Franca there is also an online project _feralC_ by mez (2010).