Description

Yvonne Hasan was born in Romania to a Jewish family, in 1925. While she is usually remembered as a professor of art history at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, she is an artist recently rediscovered. Yvonne Hasan is, through her theoretical choices and through her strenuous practice, close of the historical avant-garde. Her coloured reliefs provide her with an exclusive status in our contemporary art. Her collages and tapestries, made with apparently poor although not cheap materials, are filled with memories that embed all sorts of ciphered fragments, all recovered from the artist’s universe and forming true works of confession for those interested. Romania boasts a rich and variegated regional textile culture which Yvonne Hassan revisited in a contemporary way. Her works are both figurative and abstract however the tapestries are mainly abstract revealing her interest in Paul Klee’s works and his philosophy of colours. The current tapestry, from 1989, has a green background in front of which C shaped brownish colour rings are entangled with each other. The dynamic plasticity of the forms is remarkable.