RÓZA EL-HASSAN

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2000

Gallery, Graphic Cabinet   
December 7, 2000 – January 21, 2001
 
 

Róza El-Hassan, R. thinking about overpopulation (I), Secession 2000  
 
 
The Secession will show pieces which shed light on the versatility of Róza El-Hassan's artistic work: objects and sketches, as well as a collection of realized and unrealized group projects entitled "Leseraum" ("Reading Room") which document the idea of artistic exchange.



Róza El-Hassan, R. thinking about overpopulation (I), Secession 2000  

 
Róza El-Hassan's work is characterized by its sensuality and the dynamic inherent to the materials she uses. Simple, seemingly banal or everyday objects and materials serve as the basis for dynamic systems which function where the artist is actually operating with static dimensions.
 


Róza El-Hassan, Secession 2000  


In looking at El-Hassan's work the viewer enters a world bound up in the search for abstraction. However, the pieces do not tell stories; rather, they live from their formal and material appearance alone. "R. Thinking About Overpopulation" (1999-2000), for example, depicts through the use of simple materials (a balloon, fabric, and wood), a being crouching on the ground. The object offers a basic framework; the viewer is left to provide his own associations and political paradigms. Certain studies for objects, or the piece Spektrum - a basalt stone garnished with pins - highlight the fact that the artist is interested in raising consciousness about the way art is made, as well as in questions of material and form. The unrelenting hardness of the stone meets the relative softness of the needles, and by thus sidestepping the laws of matter paradoxical tensions are produced.
 


Róza El-Hassan, Secession 2000


In the gallery cross-space a "Reading Room" has been installed, inviting the visitor to browse over a selection of El-Hassan's cooperative projects. Beáta Veszely, for instance, shows slides from a common exhibition in Glasgow, Luchezar Boyadjiev the video project Inversed Beggar, or Milica Tomic an audio piece, for which she reconstructed a telephone conversation between Róza El-Hassan and herself.
 


Róza El-Hassan, Secession 2000



PUBLICATIONS
Two folders in German and English will accompany the exhibition. The folder on El-Hassan's Objects contains an essay by Eszter Barbaczy; the folder Leseraum ("Reading Room) documents the projects of Róza El-Hassan with Luchezar Boyadjiev, Milica Tomic, Beáta Veszely, and Branimir Stojanovic.  

	LESERAUM Luchezar Boyadjiev, Róza El-Hassan, Branimir Stojanovic, Milica Tomic, Beáta Veszely 16 pages, 19 colored illustrations, 2 b/w illustrations authors: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Róza El-Hassan, Branimir Stojanovic, Milica Tomic, Beáta Veszely Secession 2000 ___________________ Available in the shop
	RÓZA EL-HASSAN 12 pages, 7 colored illustrations, 2 b/w illustrations authors: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Róza El-Hassan, Milica Tomic, Beáta Veszley Secession 2000 ___________________ Available in the shop

 

BIOGRAPHY
Róza El-Hassan, born in Budapest in 1966, lives and works in Budapest.
Exhibitions (selected): Image Engine, Kisterem, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest and Knoll Galéria, Budapest; Extra-Territoria, project with Milica Tomic, Café Karmin, Belgrade (1999); Galerie Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen; UNDO, DeVleeshal, Middelburg (1998); Hungarian Pavilion, Venice Biennale; Mala Galerija, Ljubljana (1997); Stretched Objects, Knoll Galéria, Budapest (1996); Stretched Objects, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz (1995); Secured Space, Galerie Knoll, Vienna; Galerie A4, Wels (1994)
 

WALTER OBHOLZER

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2000

 
 
For further information and photographic material please contact:
 
Urte Schmitt-Ulms
Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession
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