Eva Hesse: WildSpace, 1957–1970
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Live event at MoMA Exhibitions
About Eva Hesse: WildSpace, 1957–1970
At MoMA, “Eva Hesse: WildSpace, 1957–1970” traces the artist’s work from the late 1950s through the decade before her death, when sculpture in New York was being remade in real time. The show follows Hesse’s turn toward latex, fiberglass, and other unstable materials, and the way she used repetition, hang, and sag to test what a form could be. Seen in an NYC museum context, the work reads as a bridge between Minimalism’s rigor and postminimalism’s bodily unease. One clear takeaway is how deliberately Hesse let impermanence become part of the meaning.
About the Artist
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse was a German-born American sculptor whose work helped define postminimalism in the 1960s. Trained in art and shaped by a cross-Atlantic biography, she turned to materials then considered unstable or industrial—latex, fiberglass, and plastics—using repetition, touch, and improvised structure to test what sculpture could hold.