Stretched Grey
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- Stretched Grey
- Feszített szürke
- 1995
- wood, color, wire, stretching screw
- 22,7 × 30 × 6 cm
In her series of “Stretched Objects,” Róza El-Hassan places such everyday objects as a glass, a cup, or a Thonet chair in the context of painting. This last-mentioned piece, not coincidentally, alludes to one of the classics of conceptual art, Joseph Kosuth’s “One and Three Chairs” (1965). Unlike that classic work, El-Hassan’s is focused not so much on conceptualism and the ready-made as it is on contextualization and transformation. Later on, as a further step in this project, she also stretched art-related objects, canvases and panels, which could be interpreted as the conceptual stretching and deconstruction of the notion of art as well. “Stretched Grey” is one such work, reminiscent of monochrome panel painting in its technique and simple title. Here, in fact, El-Hassan stretches not only an object but also a theory of art, while at the same time appropriating both. S.H.