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In 1964 the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt invited Eva Hesse (1936-1970) and her husband, Tom Doyle, to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse's practice. The artist's studio space was located in an abandoned textile factory that contained machine parts, tools, and materials that served as inspiration for her complex, linear mechanical drawings and paintings. In 1965 Hesse expanded on this theme and began using objects found in the factory and papier-mache to produce a series of fourteen vibrantly colored reliefs that venture into three-dimensional space with such materials as wood, metal, and cord protruding from the picture plane.
With dynamic new scholarship and previously unpublished illustrations, Eva Hesse 1965 highlights key drawings, paintings, and reliefs from this pivotal time and demonstrates how the artist was able to rethink her approach to color, materials, and dimensional space and begin moving toward sculpture, preparing herself for the momentous strides that she would take upon her return to New York.
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"A pivotal period of Hesse's artistic development . . . Most crucially-in the catalogue's nearly one hundred illustrations-we see Hesse's process of discovery."-Prudence Peiffer, Bookforum -- Prudence Peiffer * Bookforum * "Eva Hesse 1965 . . . presents the artist's work of this period as never before . . . a solid, up-to-date introduction . . . . Its excellent illustrations clearly document Hesse's formative period."-Patricia Briggs, Woman's Art Journal -- Patricia Briggs * Woman's Art Journal *