Cindy nemser interview eva hesse biography

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Eva Hesse was a pixyish, vivacious young woman in her early thirties.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Nancy said, "She speaks for all of us." Cindy Nemser, an art historian, critic, and feminist art pioneer, was editor and publisher of The Feminist Art.

In her Artforum cover interview with Cindy Nemser (published posthumously), Hesse concludes: “I think art is a total thing.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.!

An Interview with Eva Hesse

CN: Which artists? Marcel Duchamp, Yvonne Rainer, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre, Sartre, Samuel Beckett …

CN: Absurdity?

EH: It’s so personal … Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd.

There isn’t a thing in my life that has happened that hasn’t been extreme – personal health, family, economic situations. My art, my school, my personal friends were the best things I ever had. And now back to extreme sickness – all extreme – all absurd.

Eva Hesse contains a interview by Cindy Nemser, a discussion between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by Briony Fer, Rosalind Krauss, Mignon Nixon.

Now art being the most important thing for me, other than existing and staying alive, became connected to this, now closer meshed than ever, and absurdity is the key word … It has to do with contradictions and oppositions.

In the forms I use in my work the contradictions are certainly there. I was always aware that I should take order versus chaos, stringy versus mass, huge versus small, and I would try to find the most absurd opposites or extreme opposites … I was alwa