Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Dying of a brain tumor at age 34, she had a mere decade-long career that, despite its brevity, is dense with complex, intriguing works that defy easy categorization. EVA HESSE, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists (among them, Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham) who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality. Art critic Arthur Danto has written that her work is: “full of life, of eros, even of comedy… Each piece vibrates with originality and mischief.” The documentary captures these qualities, but also the psychic struggles of an artist who, in the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, was one of the few women to make work that was taken seriously in a field dominated by male pop artists and minimalists.  −Karen Cooper, Film Forum

“Remembering Eva Hesse, art’s forgotten female pioneer”
An interview with Marcie Begleiter in Dazed

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APRIL 27-MAY 10

209 West Houston St, West of 6th Ave, NEW YORK
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Showtimes: 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50
(Wednesday, April 27, 7:30 show sold out)

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EVA HESSE will open in Los Angeles on May 13
and will be playing at select venues around the country.
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