Eva Hesse Page #10

that I've seen in the last few years.

H's great to see something so material

and so bright and captivating.

LIPPARD:
She's part

of history, now. f mean,

she is somebody that young artists

will always know about,

which is wonderful.

SEROTA:
I don't think

the Work has yet been fully digested.

H's still full of surprises.

There's plenty to pull out of it.

So I think the inference

will continue to grow.

The ripples will keep coming

out of Ringaround Arosie.

In 1972, the Guggenheim

mounted a memorial exhibition.

And H was incredible.

H was the whole Guggenheim.

I don't think all of us realized

how good that work was.

I mean, you know,

H was five years' work.

I had a show at the Guggenheim

of approximately five years' work.

And it was one ring around

the museum, you know'?

When you see the volume of what

Eva was able to accomplish

in that period of time,

H makes you realize

what you're able to do in five years.

GOLDMAN:
Everything that

happened to her,

good or bad, empowered her.

That's the magnificence of art.

WAPNER". I remember there were about

three or four of us,

sitting around talking.

And she was describing her work

and how ephemeral it was,

and how she wasn't

concerned with its lasting.

And that the materials might degrade

was part of the package.

And she said, "See this glass?"

And she threw it against

the fireplace and it smashed.

And she said, "That's how my work is."

HESSE:
Life doesn't last.

Art doesn't last.

It doesn't matter.

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