American Women's Club of Hamburg Currents Magazine January 2014 | Page 33

AR TS & ENTER TAINMENT
Eva Hesse
Mondrian. Color
Through May 11, 2014
One More than One
In the landscapes he created shortly after 1900,
Eva Hesse (Hamburg, 1936–New York, 1970) Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) painted the rays of
was one of the foremost women artists of the the sun and the glow of the moon in order to make
20th century. In the mid-1960s she began a new statement about color. He was no longer
experimenting with new materials that had never interested in capturing fleeting external reality in
before been used to produce art objects; these the impressionist sense; instead his goal was to
included polyester, fiberglass and latex. Hesse’s capture spirituality and focus on the fundamental
highly distinctive sculptures, which are now nature of painting.
included in the collections of major international
museums, combine multiple – and also opposing
– qualities such as hard and soft, fragile and
substantial, abstract and evocative. While their
seriality and reduction show the influence of the
emerging Minimal Art movement, her sculptures
and drawings are uniquely charged with sensuous
materiality and physicality. EVA HESSE.One
More than One is the first solo exhibition of the
artist’s work in her native city, which she was forced
to leave in 1938.

Bucerius Kunstforum
Dionysus
Intoxication and Ecstasy
Through January 12, 2014
Dionysus remains the most fascinating of all the
Greek and Roman gods. His allure is based on the
mystery and wildness found in the Dionysian ritual
as well as the way it liberates from social constraints.
Since classical times, the go و