The critics: VISUAL ART: Look closely - you'll find the mother of all contemporary art buried here; Eva Hesse Tate Modern LONDON

The Independent on Sunday | December 1, 2002| | Copyright

It's sadly probable that you will find yourself thinking about Sylvia Plath as you walk around the new Eva Hesse show at Tate Modern, or, if not of Plath, of Mozart or Christ. All four were prodigies in their way, and all four died in their thirties. Each is remembered as a genius, but over each hangs the question: is the brilliance of his or her life made brighter by its shortness? If Mozart, like Telemann, had gone on composing into his eighties, would we think of him as repetitive like Telemann? If Hesse were alive (she'd be 66), would her reputation still have the gloss of youthful death? ...

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