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Two decades after Eva Hesse created Model for Augment and Aught (1968), Heide Fasnacht spoke of her admiration for Hesse's use of materials and their ability to bypass thought, triggering instead a visceral, physical response. In her own work, Fasnacht uses tension and scale to evoke bodily awareness, triggering instinctual sensations of danger, risk, and control. Interested in unstable situations and the duration of time, Fasnacht subverts the notion of sculpture as concrete and fixed, creating works that depict the moment just preceding or following their collapse. In Witness, Fasnacht combines rubber and steel with space and gravity to create a sense of potentiality and tension, leaving the work permanently on the verge of release.
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Elise Armani, DMA Label text, Body Ego, 2018.
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Until 1992: Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
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General Description
Two decades after Eva Hesse created Model for Augment and Aught (1968), Heide Fasnacht spoke of her admiration for Hesse's use of materials and their ability to bypass thought, triggering instead a visceral, physical response. In her own work, Fasnacht uses tension and scale to evoke bodily awareness, triggering instinctual sensations of danger, risk, and control. Interested in unstable situations and the duration of time, Fasnacht subverts the notion of sculpture as concrete and fixed, creating works that depict the moment just preceding or following their collapse. In Witness, Fasnacht combines rubber and steel with space and gravity to create a sense of potentiality and tension, leaving the work permanently on the verge of release.
Excerpt from
Elise Armani, DMA Label text, Body Ego, 2018.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
- updated provenance
- added general description as a text entry
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1992: Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
From 1992: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
rules
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Objects
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