[D66] Documentary About Eva Hesse. “Excellence has no sex.”

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http://hyperallergic.com/207327/finally-a-documentary-about-eva-hesses-life-and-work/

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Finally, a Documentary About Eva Hesse’s Life and Work
by Benjamin Sutton on May 15, 2015


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 of art making
of the 1960s — Minimalism, to her death from a brain tumor at 34, and to
her posthumous celebration as one of the most important artists of the
second half of the 20th century, her biography has all the requisite
elements of a rousing documentary or tear-jerking biopic.

But it’s only now, 45 years after Hesse’s death, that a feature-length
documentary has been made about the artist’s life and work. Director
Marcie Begleiter recently completed Eva Hesse, which will have its world
premiere Sunday at the Whitney Museum, where one of Hesse’s last and
most famous works is featured prominently as part of the institution’s
inaugural show in its new building, America Is Hard to See.
Hyperallergic spoke to Begleiter and the film’s producer, Karen Shapiro,
about the process of reading through Hesse’s diaries, capturing her
notoriously unwieldy rope and textile sculptures on film, and the
powerful impact she had on her contemporaries’ lives.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport