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[cristopherworthland]

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[zmlart-blog]

September 20th, 2017

Today we visited the Met Breuer and a couple different galleries to meet alumni and talk about their journeys. To begin the day, we went to an exhibition titled “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980”.I read a critique on this exhibition online before class and I was very interested in seeing it in person. The second I walked in the room I had the premonition: there was going to be an Eva Hesse piece in this show (it’s one of my weird little talents). I was curious because I absolutely ADORE Eva Hesse, but I wasn’t so sure what she was doing in an exhibition about delirium. To me, her pieces are always very clean and organized, which is part of her charm for me. However, when I saw the piece that was in the exhibition (shown in the first image), I understood why she was included. Not only was the piece itself interesting in that it disorients the viewer, but the process that Hesse had in making it, which was always very careful and calculated, was also very hypnotic. When you do the same motion for a long time, especially when creating art, it inhabits your body, almost taking over and causing you to go onto a trance. When I am doing wrapping works such as what Eve Hesse sometimes worked with, I have to set myself a timer or else I’ll get lost in the process, which I find very therapeutic. That was when I began realizing that sometimes it wasn’t just the pieces that caused the viewer delirium, but sometimes also the processes and practices that the artist used causing their own delirium or trace-like state. This was particularly interesting for me when I went back and look at the pieces of the Brazilian artists involved in the show that were involved in therapy as well. Their geometric structures seemed to have a new meaning to me, a way of organizing the crazy world around themselves and those they were working with, as well as a way to escae from reality for a while. We then visited the Pace Prints and Franklin Parrasch galleries to meet with alumni. In Pace Prints, what was most interesting to me was seeing one of the people who made me want to be an art major again. It sort of brought my art journey at Drew into more of a full circle and made me realize that people my age could also be successful in the art world. At Franklin Parrasch, I really enjoyed the exhibition that was up which was all centered on the theme of aliens and space (see the title of the exhibition in the last image shown). During my time in New York City so far, I’ve noticed that I tend to be more interested in exhibitions that are based on themes or eras than on a particular person. This may be due to the fact that I like variation, or that I like themes in artwork, but I also just enjoy seeing multiple peoples’ takes on the same ideas.

[dargerhq]

Join us @filmstreams for the on-time screening of "Eva Hesse" on Jan. 31, followed by an artist panel discussion. The documentary chronicles the brief life and groundbreaking work of Eva Hesse in the 60s. @bemiscenter will be there, too to talk about their fab upcoming exhibitions. @evahessedoc #evahess

[paintingmachine]

A drawing based from a photo of artist, Eva Hess (1936-1970). #robertjharrisart #evahess #drawingfromaphoto #derwentgraphik #illustrationart #womenartists #minimalistartist #postminimalism #2016drawing #peopledrawing #artofdrawing #pendrawing #drawing

[seafoamispretty]

Eva Hess to Sol LeWitt: So I sit now after two days of working on a dumb thing which is three dimensional. Supposed to be continuing with last drawing. All borders on pop at least to the European eye. That is anything not pure or abstract expressionist is pop like the 3-d one now actually looks like breast and penis-- but that's ok and I should go on with it maybe...but I don't know where I belong so I give up again. All the time it is like that...Have really been discovering my weird humor and making sick or maybe cool but I can only see things that way--experience them also but I can't feel cool--that is my hopelessness. Like it all is based on fear and cannot be cool when on constantly feels fear...Everything for me personally is glossed with anxiety...How do you believe in something deeply? How is it one can pinpoint beliefs into a singular purpose? On April 14 LeWitt answered this letter in no uncertain terms and with the best possible advice:" You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don't! Learn to say 'Fuck You' to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose-sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, allweyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eying, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO.

Eva Hess and Sol LeWitt