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

[J.N.]

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Eva Hesse
American, born Germany, 1936–1970


      /Hang Up/, 1966

Acrylic on cloth over wood; acrylic on cord over steel tube
182.9 x 213.4 x 198.1 cm (72 x 84 x 78 in.)
Through prior gifts of Arthur Keating and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Morris,
1988.130

© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Hauser & Wirth Zürich London

During her short career, Eva Hesse produced an extraordinarily
influential body of work that responded to the reductive formalism of
Minimalist sculpture through an exploration of the expressive
possibilities of abstraction. Trained as a painter under Josef Albers at
Yale University from 1957 to 1959, she considered the sculpture Hang Up
to be her first significant work of art. An ironic commentary on
painting, /Hang Up/ was, according to the artist, her first piece to
achieve the level of “absurdity or extreme feeling” she intended.
Privileging painting’s marginal feature—the frame—/Hang Up/ playfully
ignores the medium’s inherent two-dimensionality by means of the cord
that protrudes awkwardly into the gallery space. Playing with language,
the title refers both to installing a painting and to a psychological
preoccupation.



On 05/19/2015 01:09 PM, J.N. wrote:
> http://hyperallergic.com/207327/finally-a-documentary-about-eva-hesses-life-and-work/
>
> Interviews
> 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.
>
>
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