DV Magazine — July 2016
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

he documentary feature Eva Hesse, which follows the life of the pioneering mid-20th century artist throughout the rise of her career, marks the feature film debut of director Marcie Begleiter. Produced by Karen S. Shapiro (Beat the Drum) and Michael P. Aust (Pommes essen), the Zeitgeist Films release premiered at Film Forum in New York in April.

Eva Hesse charts the artist’s life from her escape from Nazi Germany at age 2 to her emphatic break with Minimalism, followed by her tragically early death from a brain tumor at age 34, and her posthumous celebration as one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. A German-born American artist who quickly rose to fame in the 1960s New York art scene following more than 20 group shows and a cover article in Artforum magazine in 1970, Hesse died that same year. And although only a single solo show of her sculpture was staged during her short life, subsequent years have seen multiple
retrospectives. Her work has been added to the permanent collections of museums including the Whitney, Hirschhorn, Pompidou in Paris, London’s Tate Modern and MoMA in New York. (Read full story…)