Exhibition - Eva Hesse retrospective at Camden Arts Centre
THEY may have been works in progress, or simply experiments before she launched into bigger pieces for public consumption, but the studio sculptures of Eva Hesse are worthy of an exhibition in themselves.
For the first time in the UK, a retrospective exhibition of the New York artist, who died in 1970, is on display at the Camden Arts Centre. Curated by art historian Briony Fer, the show traces many of Eva’s small-scale works taken from her studio in the 1960s.
Eva, who fled Nazi Germany as a child with her family and settled in the US, studied at New York’s School of Industrial Art, where she explored different ways of using traditional materials, including wire mesh, cheese cloth, latex and wax. While Eva used them as “test pieces” to experiment on form and materials, they work as finished pieces in their own right.
• Eva Hesse: Studiowork is at Galleries 1, 2 and 3 at the Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, NW3, until March 7.
Admission free. 020 7472 5500