Her art is often viewed in light of all the painful struggles of her life including escaping the Nazis, her parents' divorce, the suicide of her mother when she was ten, her failed marriage and the death of her father.
Danto describes her as "coping with emotional chaos by reinventing sculpture through aesthetic insubordination, playing with worthless material amid the industrial ruins of a defeated nation that, only two decades earlier, would have murdered her without a second thought."
Danto describes her as "coping with emotional chaos by reinventing sculpture through aesthetic insubordination, playing with worthless material amid the industrial ruins of a defeated nation that, only two decades earlier, would have murdered her without a second thought."
“My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”
I like the idea of using personal experience to inform work. Eve Hesse manages to humanize what seem to others as inanimate objects that don’t necessarily portray obvious sentiment. She uses new processes and materials that apart from fibre glass have aged over the years however her work does not feel tragic, but mostly full of life and humour.
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