Symposium: Eva Hesse ‘Looking Back at a Voice for the Future’

On the occasion of the opening week of ‘Eva Hesse. Five Sculptures’, an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hauser & Wirth's representation of the Hesse estate, we joined the artist's sister, Helen Hesse Charash; curators Helen Cooper and Linda Shearer; art historian Élisabeth Lebovici; Guggenheim Museum conservators Lena Stringari and Esther Chao; writer, curator and advisor to The Estate of Eva Hesse, Barry Rosen; and Senior Curatorial Director at Hauser & Wirth, Kate Fowle for an afternoon symposium, at our 18th Street location, gathering some of the foremost voices on the Hesse's work.

The afternoon symposium featured three key discussions touching on Eva Hesse’s (1936–1970) transformational sculptural language and her pioneering use of alternative materials. Much of the program highlighted one key work, ‘Expanded Expansion,’ as an exemplary focal point of ‘Eva Hesse. Five Sculptures.’

00:00 - Foundation: Helen Hesse Charash, Helen Cooper, Linda Shearer and Kate Fowle
48:03 – Questions
1:00:57 – Area. Aught. Augment. Repetition Nineteen. Expanded Expansion. with Élisabeth Lebovici
1:51:11 – Conservation: Esther Chao, Lena Stringari and Barry Rosen
2:30:06 – Questions
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