Louise Bourgeois in the Park

To complement Louise Bourgeois' comprehensive exhibition at Pompidou, I highly recommend a walk in Les Tuileries where you can admire two major artworks from this Artist. Welcoming Hands next to L'Orangerie are a series of bronze hands sculptures placed on granite blocks that are meant to be touched. They have been exhibited there since the late 1990s when it was decided to turn the gardens into an open air and public Modern Art display (alongside works by Giacometti, Rodin, Lichtenstein, Dubuffet or Moore). If the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern was a place of choice for the gigantic Maman sculpture (I vividly remember my first impression when I entered this hall and discovered the big spider for the first time), there is no better place for her than in Les Tuileries. You could nearly expect this sculpture to be peacefully strolling within the gardens.