Louise Bourgeois
Cell XIX
Tag: installation
Top: Nancy Graves, Variability of Similar Forms. 1970
Bottom: Eva Hesse, 7 Poles. 1970
In 1970, while Eva Hesse was in between hospital stays for a brain tumor, she visited her friend, fellow artist Nancy Graves, and saw a work in progress; “Variability of Similar Forms” (1970). Later, Eva played with this idea and began work on her final sculpture known as “7 Poles”. Although near the end of her life, Hesse never stopped looking for inspiration and working on new ideas.
Photo of “7 Poles” in Hesse’s Bowery studio by Chris Gianakos.
Photo of Graves “"Variability of Similar Forms” by John Winder
Contingent (1969) on the cover of Artforum, May 1970. Eva Hesse died at the end of the month.
Louise Bourgeois’ Cell (Three White Marble Spheres) 1993
René Magritte’s The Monumental Shadow 1932
Jenny Holzer
Eva Hesse
Aught, 1968
Latex, canvas, polyethylene sheeting, rope and unidentified materials, metal grommets
Installation variable, 4 units
Installation view, Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York NY, 1968
Louise Bourgeois, from “Structures of Existence: The Cells”
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Never let me be free from
this burden that will never
let me be free – Louise Bourgeois
Chiharu Shiota
Inside – Outside [Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin ]
Little Bristling Soul 