Eva Hesse | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aest | dG1fYW92NlI4cW1mMTA

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00:00Eva's work spoke to a new generation of younger artists. She was the outstanding

00:09woman making sculpture in the mid and late 60s. The work that was going on in

00:15New York at this time was very clean. Eva's work was different. She was very

00:22personal. There was a lot of eroticism in her work. It was so full of soul. Eva Hesse was

00:27one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. I was born in Germany in 1936.

00:34Her grandparents had all been killed by the Nazis. We went to America. It was the

00:40end of summer 1939. It was the last chance. Everything that happened to her, good or

00:46bad, empowered her. That's the magnificence of art. Her idea was to make an art that

00:55was on the borderline of uncontrollability. I don't think all of us realized how good

01:01that work was.

01:03I can see Eva just sitting there with her materials almost like they were another

01:08creature, but not another creature, maybe herself. It was distinctive. It was fragile.

01:14It was all those things that sculpture was not supposed to be.

01:23One of the great things she teaches us is play.

01:26One of the most exciting takes on painting that I've seen.

01:30She was very smart.

01:32Absolutely original.

01:33I'm workin', I'm workin', I'm workin', I'm workin'