Tomorrow’s Sunday Object Talk focuses on Laocoön (on view in the Ellen Johnson Gallery), Eva Hesse’s first sculpture to enter a museum collection. Rachel Luczkowski (OC ‘12) gives the talk, which begins at 2pm.
Hesse’s work on this object, her first freestanding sculpture, lasted for several months. Its first version was more skeletal, with the plastic pipes that make up its grid-like frame visible, and fewer ropes hanging over the structure. Originally, the ropes and frame were also shaded across a range from black to white. This final version was built up with papier-mâché and painted a unifying grey tone. The drawing on the right (completed after the finished work) seems to represent the earlier phase of the sculpture, and suggests Hesse was still consumed by the memory of the sculpture, though its final version had been completed.
Did you know? The AMAM also holds the Eva Hesse Archives of over 1300 items? Click on the link to learn more.
