HESSE, Eva; ROSEN, Barry (ed.)
Eva Hesse: Exhibitions, 1972–2022

This volume provides a historical account of Eva Hesse’s landmark institutional exhibitions. Contributions from the museum curators involved in organizing these shows reflect the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition, its intent, and reception. Accompanied by extensive installation views, archival material, exhibition-related ephemera, and snapshots, Eva Hesse: Exhibitions, 1972–2022 brings these exhibitions to life.

OK this is the official description of the book and it is not super interesting, and—should we say it?—this book deserves better, even if it is a gallery publication. (NB: It’s a book designed by NORM. You know what we mean ; ) The essays are surprisingly personal and open to a variety of points of view and perspectives on Hesse’s work and its possible interpretations. The documentation is equally rich and challenging, as reproductions of ephemera are put forward, as well as the materiality of slides, old b/w photographs, without fetishism either. All this sheds a quite stimulating, and new, light on Hesse’s work…

With contributions by Linda Shearer, Nicholas Serota, Ellen H. Johnson, Helen Cooper, Elisabeth Sussman, Renate Petzinger, Sabine Folie, Catherine de Zegher, Fred Wasserman, Briony Fer, Fiona Bradley, E. Luanne McKinnon, Brigitte Kölle, Petra Roettig, Andrea Gyorody, Lena Stringari.

Published by Hauser & Wirth, 2024
Design by NORM
Monographs / Art History / Documents / Curatorial Studies