Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke

“Wilke’s description of her early erotic objects as both abstract and “namable” reads as a pretty accurate description of a number of other three-dimensional works made in the early years of the 1960s by other artists, including Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama. Each was then working independently to establish a formal vocabulary that ... See more

“Wilke’s earliest ceramic sculptures pulse with what Freud dubbed “polymorphous perversity,” as a void becomes a vagina, becomes a mouth, becomes a penis, becomes an anus, becomes an ear”

Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke

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“the making of them doesn’t appear to be anything special. There are no secrets or mysteries as to what the objects are; the puzzle is in confronting such simple but unusual objects and in trying to understand what about them seems so strange. This is the contrast in Hesse’s work that most interests me: the contrast between simultaneous obviousness... See more