Gender and art

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt celebrates the close friendship between two of the most significant American artists of the post-war era: Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007). While their practices diverged in innumerable, seemingly antithetical ways—LeWitt’s art is associated with ideas and system-based conceptual art and Hesse’s is associated with the body and her own hand—this exhibition of approximately 40 works will highlight the crucial impact that their decade-long friendship had on both their lives and work.

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt

February 23–May 18, 2014

Blanton Museum of Art
MLK and Congress
Austin, Texas

http://www.blantonmuseum.org/

"Kirsten Swenson, a contributor to the new book, Eva Hesse 1965, edited by Barry Rosen, writes here on the artist's important transitions beginning in the last five years of her short life, as Hesse changed media from drawing and painting to sculpting the works for which she is so widely known."

"Eva Hesse (Hamburg 1936 – 1970 New York) was one of the foremost women artists of the 20th century. In the mid-1960s she began to experiment with new materials that until then had never been used for sculpture, such as polyester, fibreglass and latex. Influenced by the emerging Minimal Art movement, Hesse developed an interest in serial processes and reduction, but in her own work these were accompanied by sensuous materiality and physicality. Her sculptures, which are now in the permanent collections of leading international museums, incorporate many different (and sometimes contrasting) elements. In Hesse’s drawings, too, a playful sense of rhythm and the juxtaposition of factors such as order and chaos, control and dynamism, precision and chance are key aspects.

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Eva Hesse. One More than One is the first major survey of the artist’s work to be presented in her native city. This exhibition of around 50 sculptures and drawings at the Hamburger Kunsthalle concentrates on the latter part of Hesse’s career – the highly productive period from 1966 until her early death in 1970."

Eva Hesse. One More than One

Hamburger Kunsthalle, until 2 March 2014

http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/index.php/gego-hesse-english/articles/gego-hesse-english.html