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ottobre 13, 2020 - Belvedere Museum

As part of the Carlone Contemporary series, the Belvedere presents the work of multimedia artist Renate Bertlmann


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CARLONE CONTEMPORARY

RENATE BERTLMANN


As part of the Carlone Contemporary series, in 2020 the Belvedere presents the work of multimedia artist #renatebertlmann for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019: a field of red knife-roses. The luscious flowers, made of Murano glass, contain razor-sharp surgical blades in their buds.


Renate Bertlmann participated in the 58th Venice Biennale from May to November 2019. In collaboration with curator Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, she created a multi-part installation for the Austrian pavilion titled Discordo ergo sum ("I dissent, therefore I am"). At Carlone Hall she is now presenting a variation of the installation, a carefully laid out grid of 286 knife-roses.

For the exhibition at the Upper Belvedere, the Austrian artist developed a new version of her contribution to the Biennale, one which makes reference to the Baroque setting. Red-bladed roses, rigorously arranged in a grid pattern, adorn the lavishly frescoed hall of the palace. The duality of fragility and aggression mirrors the pairs of opposites – such as light and shadow – found in the Baroque frescos by Carlo Innozenco Carlone. The individual flowers are made of transparent glass the color of coagulated blood, forcefully pierced by shiny scalpels. Or did perhaps the flowers give birth to the razor-sharp blades? Tenderness/violence, softness/hardness, desire/abhorrence, sensuality/aggression, vagina/penis – the ambivalences of life, which are the driving force behind the relentless cruelties of our everyday life, overlap and are reversed and infused with a sense of agonizing beauty.

As a key figure within the Austrian feminist avant-garde and a pioneer of international performance art, #renatebertlmann has developed a distinct oeuvre since the 1970s. Born in #vienna in 1943, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oxford in 1962/63 and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts #vienna, where she then continued to work as a lecturer in artistic techniques. Influenced by the feminist movement of the 1970s, she was an active member of IntAkt (International Action Group of Women Artists), among others. #renatebertlmann has continuously dealt with virulent social issues through her art, which includes film, photography, collage, drawing, performance, object art, and installation. In 2007, she was awarded the #vienna Prize for Fine Arts, and in 2017, the Great Austrian State Prize. Works by #renatebertlmann can be found at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, the mumok in #vienna, and the LENTOS Art Museum in Linz. #renatebertlmann lives and works in #vienna.


EDITION

The edition OHNE TITEL, 2020 accompanies the exhibition
Edition 30 + 5 A.P.
Hot foil stamping on white Japanese paper, dimensions: 210 x 297 mm, framed, signed, dated, numbered
Price: € 720 including tax
Available from 19 February 2020 at the Belvedere or at: editionen@belvedere.at

CARLONE CONTEMPORAY

The Carlone Contemporary series presents contemporary works in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere in six-month intervals. From the frescoed ancient world of the deities Apollo and Diana to the present day, contemporary artists bridge the Baroque pictorial program with new artistic stances.


Upper Belvedere
20 February to 30 January 2021

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