Eva Hesse / Gego
dal 27/11/2013 al 1/3/2014
Segnalato da
27/11/2013
Eva Hesse / Gego
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
The exhibitions include sculptures and drawings by both artists. In the mid-1960s Hesse began experimenting with new materials that had never before been used to produce art objects; these included polyester, fiberglass and latex. Gertrud Goldschmidt, widely known as Gego, was one of the most important women artists in Latin America, she presents around 120 works.
Eva hesse
One More than One
Curators: Dr. Brigitte Kölle and Dr. Petra Roettig
Curatorial assistant: Merle Radtke
Eva Hesse (Hamburg, 1936–New York, 1970) was one of the foremost women artists of the 20th century. In the mid-1960s she began experimenting with new materials that had never before been used to produce art objects; these included polyester, fiberglass and latex. Hesse's highly distinctive sculptures, which are now included in the collections of major international museums, combine multiple – and also opposing – qualities such as hard and soft, fragile and substantial, abstract and evocative. While their seriality and reduction show the influence of the emerging Minimal Art movement, her sculptures and drawings are uniquely charged with sensuous materiality and physicality.
One More than One is the first solo exhibition of the artist's work in her native city, which she was forced to leave in 1938. Her family were Jewish, and in 1939 they emigrated via the Netherlands and England to New York. In the 1950s Eva Hesse studied painting at the Cooper Union School and also at Yale School of Art and Architecture.
The exhibition focuses on sculptures and drawings from the latter part of her short career – the highly productive phase from 1966 until her early death in 1970. Featuring numerous loans from major international museums and private collections, it provides an extremely rare opportunity to view Eva Hesse's late works, some of which are being shown in Germany for the very first time.
Concurrently with EVA HESSE. One more than one, the exhibition GEGO. Line as Object is being presented on the 2nd floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart. For the first time, works by these two internationally renowned artists are being presented in dialogue in Hamburg, the city of their birth. Each in their own way, Eva Hesse and Gego, whose real name was Gertrud Goldschmidt (Hamburg, 1912–Caracas, 1994), were pioneers of spatial installation and also in the use of non-traditional materials in the context of art.
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Gego
Line as Object
Curators: Dr. Brigitte Kölle and Dr. Petra Roettig
Curatorial assistant: Merle Radtke
Gertrud Goldschmidt (Hamburg, 1912–Caracas, 1994), widely known as Gego, was one of the most important women artists in Latin America. Born and brought up in Hamburg, she originally trained as an architect in Stuttgart. Gego was of Jewish origin and emigrated in 1939 to Venezuela, where she began working as an artist and also as a university teacher. Her delicate, rhizomatically structured objects made of metal and wire challenged the traditional definition of sculpture as an enclosed mass and volume.
Gego also pursued transparency and lightness in her numerous works on paper, where she employed lines as objects. Her groundbreaking and experimental approach to sculpture and 'drawing in space' had a significant influence on subsequent generations of artists in Latin America, leaving its mark on contemporary art far beyond Venezuela. In Europe, on the other hand, Gego's work is much less well known.
This exhibition – the first of its kind in Germany – includes around 120 sculptures and drawings from every stage of Gego's career and is therefore a tremendous opportunity to experience her unique work at first hand.
Concurrently with GEGO. Line as object to play with, the exhibition EVA HESSE. One More than One is being shown on the 3rd floor of the Galerie der Gegenwart. For the first time, works by these two internationally renowned artists are being presented in dialogue in Hamburg, the city of their birth. Each in their own way, Gego and Eva Hesse
(Hamburg, 1936 – New York, 1970) were pioneers of spatial installation and also in the use of non-traditional materials in the context of art.
A collaboration between Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Image: Eva Hesse. Photo: Hermann Landshoff © Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Zürich London / Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, Archiv Landshoff
Press contact:
Mira Forte Tel. +49 (0)40 428131204 forte@hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Press conference: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 11:00 a.m.
Opening: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Press date: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 11: 00
Opening: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 19: 00
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