“Unconscious Landscape”
Hauser & Wirth | Somerset
As it turns out, one of Ursula Hauser’s favorite pieces in her extensive collection of modern and contemporary art is mine, too. Louise Bourgeois’s Legs, 1986, closed “Unconscious Landscape: Works from the Ursula Hauser Collection,” hanging simply and solemnly by the exit. Legs they are, and in Bourgeois’s customarily uncanny and discomfiting style, they are made strange—made of black rubber, impossibly straight and slender, more than ten feet long, here hovering just above the ground. Bourgeois was the linchpin of “Unconscious Landscape,” with works in almost all five rooms. Central to her