Louise Bourgeois is regarded as one of the most important artists working today. Born in 1911 in Paris, she studied under Léger, André Lhôte and Roger Bissière in the 1930s before moving to New York in 1938. Bourgeois has always been at the forefront of new developments in art, but has pursued a wholly personal path, removed from the major avant-garde movements of her time. She has explored her ideas in painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, using extraordinarily varied media from wood and stone to latex and rubber. However, this breadth of materials is balanced by an almost obsessive continuity of subject matter, often deeply autobiographical in its references to Bourgeois’ childhood. (Tate Modern)

A retrospective by Louise Bourgeois which is now open in Paris contains 200 works of this famous artist including sculptures, art, images and different objects. This exhibition shows that art is the only thing which can live forever.

Louise Bourgeois Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris. (Photo: Horacio Villalobos / EPA)