Eva Hesse is an artist I’ve recently come across, I seem to be establishing a theme and a taste for female artists… I would hate to fall into the feminist category of artists as that’s not what I’m about! The drawing of inspiration from the female body and psyche is an obvious and intimate point of reference for me and intrinsically connected with my life experience.
Eva Hesse was renound for her innovative approach to her work and her use of non traditional materials in her sculpture, she is viewed as one of the most innovative artists of the postwar scene. She was born in Germany in 1936 and died at the young age of 34 from brain cancer. Her use of materials is what really grabbed me when I first some images of her work, I am trying to satisfy something in me which has been “bugging” me for a while and that is the use of alternative materials, I am in fact going to cast some images of the face in a cheesecloth and resin ( something Hesse has used) before I found her art work, now I’m enthused and inspired to look at her presentation of work, the use of materials and the construct behind the work. I want to embody a real sence of vulnerability and fragility in to this semesters work…something which resonates with me at this moment in my life. Ephemeral, translucent and transparent are all terms and a language I want to create my work around.
