Wed, Aug 23 / 7 pm
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Wed & Thu, Aug 30 & 31 / 7 pm
Directed by Marcie Begleiter
2016, USA, 108 min
An extraordinary portrait of the artistic life and work of Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most influential artists and sculptors of the 20th century. The film paints an exciting portrait of the 1960’s New York pop art scene, the ferment of ideas and the clash of egos. Eva escaped Nazi Germany at age two in the last of the kindertransports headed for the Netherlands. Arriving in America, she grew up in New York and interned at Seventeen Magazine. She attended Cooper Union and Yale, becoming an influential sculptor and one of America’s foremost postwar artists before passing away tragically of a brain tumour at age 34. Striking out on her own path she followed her own vision. “I will paint against every rule,” she wrote. She kept many journals and a personal diary in which she documented her troubled life including a stormy marriage to alcoholic Irish Sculptor Tom Doyle.
