Maman: The Giant Spider

Posted in Art, Sculpture

Look, there’s a giant spider! Run! Just kidding! This gigantic sculpture of the spider named “Maman” is 30 feet in height and width, with a sac containing 26 marble eggs. It’s one of Louise Bourgeois, the creator, famous sculptures. There’s one stainless steel version which is currently being lend to the Tate Modern in London. There are another six bronze casts located at National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul and Havana in Cuba. What a fine piece of contemporary sculpture that I would like to put in front of my house, if only I can afford it.

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21 Responses so far

Pictures of Moscow on
Terrible. How there children go? :???:
kab625 on
We will all buy you a Smirnoff so you can afford this sculpture. By the way, I really like it! It’s much more fun to walk under, I’m sure, than some conventional structures. Pretty cool.
Diane on
I hate spiders so I’m not sure how I would cope with seeing this…. :)

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ShadowKnight on
I like it! Not too many modern artworks that I do like. Generally they are something so abstract you have no idea what it is. I this case its a great whopping spider and can be nothing else. It rocks!
Dining Room Table on
Even if I could afford it, I simply do not have the space to locate it. I however agree that it is a beautiful piece of sculpture.
kibitz on
Very nice !
AJ on
yeaaaaah no… I’m an arachnophobe so that sculpture would give me nightmares for days.
Bubbles on
Unique design!
I’m sure they’ll think of using this structure in a Giant Spider Movie or something!
Omega on
wow! that’s a pretty big and awesome spider! I would want to have one too :grin:
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Clay on
Wow! I’ve never seen such a thing that displays that! My, oh my!
durano lawayan on
Hi kiwipulse, so this humongous thingy is Spidermaman eh? Must be a male spider. :roll: I think I would like to see this sculpture and examine it piece by piece. I used to play with spiders as a kid and we used have 2 of them fight it out to the death, with bets. The spiders would be put on a bamboo stick and I and the rest of the gang would enjoy watching them knock each other off.

Sounds pretty stupid now but it was fun then. The other part is the hunt for spiders which we did in wooded areas where we used to live.

Very nice post. –Durano, done!
m on
how nice and creepy

I’m happy not to be walking the streets there
imartian on
beautiful art ,, i love it
Maldiveslive on
Wow. Very Nice Picture of Big Spider.
Lisa C on
I saw this in person in Ottawa. It is way cool in person. I got a cold one waiting for ya!
izzy69rocks on
That is a gigantic spider dude.
thanks for sharing.
I think spiderman will lost the battle against this one .
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jake on
yo! waz up peeps? i like the huge spider thing! come to jellef 4 any of u that knows where it is! it is next to the renivating safe way!
charlie on
what do the eggs represent?
Hitesh Sawlani on
Good stuff! I recently posted some pics of the one in Bilbao!

http://www.hiteshsawlani.com/blog/2010/maman-by-louise-bourgeois/