Hess Collection Audio Tour: Recent Episodes
The Hess Collection
Audio Tour of The Hess Collection Contemporary Art Museum. Learn more at http://www.hesscollection.com/art/
Ehrdbild
An artist changes the business principles of his patron by refusing to sell him his work.
Woodcuts
Franz Gertsch's enormous woodcuts show a delicacy that and precision that belies their size. Robert Ceballos discusses the process of making a woodcut.
Crowd
A polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.
Robilee Frederick on Her Art
Napa artist, and “late bloomer” Robilee Frederick discusses her art and how she would classify her art.
From the Ladder Series
"And he dreamed and beheld a ladder set up on earth and the top of it reached into heaven" The ladder as metaphor for reaching higher.
Successful Artist
Who says artists only become famous after death? Many artists are successful markers of themselves. Robert Ceballos discusses this notion.
Diversity
Robert Raushenberg in search of diversity and continual artistic investigations. Director, Robert Ceballos talks about conceptual art and the beauty of functional form in every day disposable objects.
Seeing is not always believing. A Markus Raetz visual conundrum pays Hommage to a famous Joseph Beuys performance piece involving gold leaf, honey and a dead hare.
Lynn Hershman’s phantom limbs ask you to think about how visual media may objectify individuals.
a Room One's Own
An interactive peep show based on Edison’s Kinetoscope and the Nickelodeon. Who is looking at whom?
White Cliffs of Dover Study
A Scottish family asks you to think about what you miss. The Boyles create incredibly realistic representations of the earth’s surface out of fibreglass and paint.
An iconic German painter paints “very German” paintings. Director, Robert Ceballos and Founder, Donald Hess discuss Anselm Kiefer’s work, Am Anfang.
Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
Expression in painting and the use of titles to help guide individual response.
A cursory overview of abstract art. Could your kid do this? What did the CIA have to do with American Abstract Expressionism?
A polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.
Welcome to the Audio Tour of the Hess Collection Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring narration by the collector Donald Hess and museum director Robert Ceballos.