Robbie’s Inspiration – Thursday Doors: Mori Art Gallery, Tokyo #ThursdayDoors #TokyoAdventure

TC worked on my second day in Tokyo so I had the day to myself. I turned it into an art adventure. In the morning I went to the Tokyo Modern Art Museum which I wrote about on Sunday. In the afternoon, I went to the Mori Art Gallery.

The exhibition was the work of Louise Bourgeois and this is what tate.org.uk says about her:

“With a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s until 2010, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that are inspired by her own memories and experiences.”

You can continue reading this article here: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351/art-louise-bourgeois

These first artworks include doors in the museum:

Picture caption: Crouching spider sculpture with the door out of the gallery in the backgound.

Picture caption: The crouching spider sculpture from the other side of the gallery and showing the entrance door.

The following two photographs are of paintings, both feature buildings with doors:

Picture caption: A stuffed red head with its tongue sticking out inside a steel mesh cage.

Picture caption: a white chair inside an enclosure facing a small round hole (a bit reminiscent of a medieval prison). A few doors in this piece.

Picture caption: A spider sculpture with the body a wire mesh cage with a collection of items inside. There is a door into the body. This was my favourite piece in the collection.

You can view other doors post for Thursday Doors on Dan’s blog here: https://nofacilities.com/2025/01/30/reverse-course/