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Eva Hesse’s life story exudes drama. From escaping Nazi Germany at age two aboard one of the last Kindertransport trains bound for the Netherlands, to her emphatic break with the dominant mode ...
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures, an exhibition of work from the late 1960s at Hauser & Wirth, in Chelsea, can feel like a forced return to framing the artist as a minimalist. In part, this is caused by ...
In titling "Eva Hesse: Studiowork" at the Berkeley Art Museum, guest co-curator Briony Fer coined a new term to indicate the gray zone between avowed artworks and inchoate or abandoned efforts ...
One of the most significant books on the artist, in fact, is already four decades old: Lucy Lippard’s “Eva Hesse,” from 1976, presents and contextualizes the artist’s work and features ...
Watch a clip from the documentary film "Eva Hesse," written and directed by Marcie Begleiter, with Selma Blair as the voice of Eva Hesse. Photo: Zeitgeist Films Toward the end of “Eva Hesse ...
Eva Hesse’s monumental work of art “Expanded Expansion” was kept in storage at the Guggenheim Museum for nearly 35 years. In the 1990s, the work was deemed unexhibitable.
News; Eva Hesse drawing exhibit at Oberlin College shows how her art triumphed over tragedies of a troubled life. Updated: ; Apr. 03, 2022, 10:30 a.m. | Published ...
"Eva Hesse/Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction" is on view at Acquavella Gallery in New York City until June 18, 2021. Installation shot of Wilke’s work. Courtesy of Acquavella Galleries. Courtesy ...
Eva Hesse, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, ... Hesse's work is characterized by its organic shapes, tactile surfaces and the tension between fragility and strength.
We ask The Art Newspaper's art market editor about the mood in Basel, discuss the Dutch museum tackling the difficult topic ...
Considering Eva Hesse, this alchemical process seeps into the mind. She’s an artist much admired, and frozen in time. Hesse was born in 1936 to a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany.
On view at Hauser & Wirth, a small exhibition of the singular, short-lived artist’s late-career creations is a poor introduction for newcomers but a welcome capsule exhibition for those familiar ...