Hauser & Wirth mounts a rare Eva Hesse show tomorrow. Here’s what the gallery has to say:
On March 16, Hauser & Wirth New York will open anexhibition of such objects: ‘EVA HESSE’ brings togetherfourteen works, many never before shown publicly inthe United States, that previously have been consideredimprovisational ‘test pieces’ or prototypes for largersculptures. Of these, eleven are delicate papier cachéforms – wisps of assembled paper, tape, cheeseclothand adhesive made between 1966 and 1969 – that areneither round nor rectangular, but indeterminate.