Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, a just-opened exhibition at HauserWirth, focuses on the artist’s works on paper, a parallel practice that she continued throughout her career.
During a career lasting little more than a decade, ending in 1970 with her death from brain cancer at age 34, the German-born American artist Eva Hesse endowed contemporary sculpture with new forms, processes, and meanings. Though she began as a painter, she’s best known for her work in three dimensions: sculptures made from what were then unorthodox materials, such as latex, rubber, fiberglass, and rope.
Born in 1936 to a Jewish family in Hamburg, Hesse was two years old when she and her older sister Helen boarded one of the last Kindertransport trains to get Jewish children out of Nazi Germany. Six months later the girls were reunited with their parents in England and the family emigrated to New York, settling in Washington Heights. Their parents later separated, and their mother committed suicide in 1946.Hesse never addressed the Shoah or her turbulent personal history explicitly in her art.
The 70-odd works on paper in the current exhibition all come from the artist’s archive at Oberlin College, where the university’s Allen Memorial Art Museum once provided her with crucial early support.
Strangest of all, perhaps, is a series of cartoonlike “mechanical” drawings she made during her breakthrough year in 1965, when she accompanied her then husband, the sculptor Tom Doyle, on an artist’s residency to work in a disused wing of a textile factory near Essen. The marriage was failing and the return to Germany proved traumatic for Hesse, who found herself wracked with self-doubt.
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