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Hesse forged her own context. 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.
Eva Hesse died at the age of 34, less than a year after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. She underwent numerous treatments shortly after diagnosis, including three invasive yet unsuccessful ...
As the wild ride of the 1960s came to a close, Eva Hesse, a 34 year-old German-born American artist was cresting the wave of a swiftly rising career. One ...
The filmmaker found hardly any footage of Hesse, who died in 1970 when she was only 34. So most of the images in the documentary are black-and-white still photos, with a few filmed moments. To ...
Eva Hesse’s ‘Expanded Expansion’ (1969), currently on view at Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Hauser & Wirth New York When an animal is trapped in resin, a bit of natural alchemy happens.