YBCA Screening Room
$10 regular/$8 YBCA Member, Senior, Student, Teacher
FREE for YBCA:You
Thu, May 26, 7:30 PM
Fri, May 27, 7:30 PM
Sat, May 28, 7:30 PM
Sun, May 29, 2:00 PM
Director Marcie Begleiter and producer Karen Shapiro in person for Q&A on Thu, May 26.
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of the greatest American artists of the 20th-century. She was a pioneer, helping to establish the post-minimalist movement, but her career was cut short at age 34, when she died of a brain tumor. In just a...
YBCA Screening Room
$10 regular/$8 YBCA Member, Senior, Student, Teacher
FREE for YBCA:You
Thu, May 26, 7:30 PM
Fri, May 27, 7:30 PM
Sat, May 28, 7:30 PM
Sun, May 29, 2:00 PM
Director Marcie Begleiter and producer Karen Shapiro in person for Q&A on Thu, May 26.
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of the greatest American artists of the 20th-century. She was a pioneer, helping to establish the post-minimalist movement, but her career was cut short at age 34, when she died of a brain tumor. In just a decade, Hesse challenged and changed the field with large scale, complex sculptures and installations that defy easy categorization. This documentary explores the the life and work of Hesse, making superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists, including Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, and Dan Graham. Art critic Arthur Danto has written that her work is: “full of life, of eros, even of comedy… Each piece vibrates with originality and mischief.” The documentary captures these qualities, but also the psychic struggles of an artist who, in the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, was one of the few women to make work that was taken seriously in a field dominated by male pop artists and minimalists (Film Forum). (2016, 108 min, digital)
** If you miss Marcie Begleiter and Karen Shapiro at our in-person screening, they will also be giving a talk at SFMOMA as part of the 50 Artists lecture series: https://www.sfmoma.org/event/50-artists-eva-hesse/
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