Artists

Carola Dertnig

Press release

We are delighted to present the solo exhibition Roaming Circle by Austrian artist Carola Dertnig at our gallery in Vienna. On display are new paintings, sculptures and installations which tie in with Dertnig's current retrospective at the OK exhibition hall in Linz and explore the interweaving of body, stage, language and space.

Spatial, rhythmic circular movements, the complex dynamics of parallel and counter-rotating turns, a play with forces between pulling and pushing—the new sculptures and paintings that Carola Dertnig is presenting in her exhibition Roaming Circle at Galerie Crone Vienna defy hasty interpretation. The works are an expression of the artist's ongoing reflection on performance and the connection between movement and aesthetics in the visual arts.

The starting point for these works is Dertnig’s many years of involvement with the Feldenkrais method. The method aims to correct movement patterns that have become ingrained in the body and are harmful by breaking down motion sequences into small units. Based on verbal instructions, new connections and links are developed in a slow process of repeatedly feeling individual postures. Dertnig is less interested in the therapeutic purpose than in the moment of becoming aware of successions of movement connected to the potential of the changeability of postures—she always links this from a feminist perspective with the question of how social structures can be broken up and alternative possibilities for action established.