mumok opens an exhibition dedicated exclusively to Eva Hesse`s works on paper
(Artdaily.org)

“Crazy like machines, forms larger and bolder”—this was how Eva Hesse (* 1936 in Hamburg; † 1970 in New York) described a recently completed group of drawings in a letter to her artist friend Sol LeWitt in 1965. She was referring to her so-called “mechanical” drawings, which seem to depict details of technical devices and at the same time have an eerily bodily air—as if one were offered a glance into the inner workings of a mysteriously mechanical organism. Hesse created these drawings during a prolonged stay in the German town of Kettwig an der Ruhr (today a borough of Essen) in 1964/65, which was to go down in art history as a period of transformation.