Eva Hesse with her sculpture “Untitled or Not Yet” in her New York studio, 1969, photographed by Hermann Landshoff.Credit…Estate of Eva Hesse and Hauser & Wirth/bpk Bildagentur, Müncher Stadtmuseum, Munich and Hermann Landshoff; Art Resource

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Eva Hesse, “Right After,” 1969, Latex over rope, string and wire, Post Minimalism

This installation is made from rope, string, wire and latex. Simple materials that create a stunning and simple structure. The photography and lighting show this piece to its best too.

This was one of two of Eva Hesse’s pieces hung from the ceiling. It was a collaboration with Doug John. At the time, Hesse was very ill with a brain tumor. She dipped one to two hundred feet lengths of fiberglass cord into buckets of latex and hung it on S-shaped hooks cut from ordinary clothes hangers. Hesse suspended the piece in the air from the ceiling to dry. At the time, She was one of few artist that experimented with latex and was not sure what would happen. The latex would either drip off the piece or dry and stick to it.

Right After caught everyone’s attention. It was completely hand made and used materials from everyday life, which was very different from Minimalism. A characteristic, many Post-Minimalist artists did. From afar, Right After has a weightless and droopy effect. Right After was moved from gallery to gallery which disturbed Hesse because she wasn’t sure what the exact changes would be during each transition. When she was made the piece, she believed her studio was part of her art and putting Right After into a gallery would only change people’s perspective. Hesse didn’t like how galleries used dramatic lighting effects. These lighting effects would unfortunately take away the shadows she would see in her studio.

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WhitneyFocus. “Singular Visions: Eva Hesse, No Title, 1970.” YouTube. Web. 6 May. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= LklUuaUxX4k>

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