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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“there is also something flat-out funny about Wilke’s sculptural work, an attitude shared with a number of works made by Hesse, Bourgeois, and others, although it is an aspect of their work that tends to get overlooked—too awkward, a bit embarrassing to an artworld for whom “funny” is often a dirty word”

Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke

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