Right After

Eva Hesse - Right After
Eva Hesse – Right After

Artist : Eva Hesse

Year : 1969

Size : 5 × 18 × 4 ft (152.39 × 548.61 × 121.91 cm)

Media : Fiberglass

connection between this artwork and my practice:

Eva  originally pursued a career in commercial textile design, which is close to me as a commercial ceramist and how she become postmodern artist by exploring the use of the simplest materials to create  biomorphic and geometric forms.

Similarity of Eva Hesse’s works to my projects is the simplicity of the forms and our methods of using materials and objects to draw, paint and sculpt in space but our connection is way deeper than forms. There are personal connections such as “The artist’s struggle between impulses that causes a piece to be started and what actually happens, more freely, once its creation has begun” or “such a pragmatic tearing and reconfiguring freed Hesse from making decisions about the forms in advance”

she shows use of hand

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Vertiginous Detour

Eva Hesse - Vertiginous Detour
Eva Hesse – Vertiginous Detour

Artist : Eva Hesse

Year : 1966

Size : ball 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm) diameter; rope: approx. 154 in. (391 cm) long

Media : Acrylic and polyurethane on papier-mâché, rope, and net

connection between this artwork and my practice: Hesse was interested in the process of making, the importance of hand making, creating inner and outer spaces in her work, her perception of the negative spaces and other elements and their beauties. “If you use fiberglass clear and thin, light does beautiful things to it …it is there__ part of its anatomy” adds extra similarity to my projects in addition to our similarities in use of biomorphic and geometric abstraction or transferring line in space.

I am interested in her work and specially this sculpture because of geometric aesthetic and Balance, hanging from the ceiling, organic form and being a minimal installation. Shadow and light and the way she created the sculpture by letting the weight of the ball shape the net art are other important elements.