Kalin Lindena
21 Jan - 12 Mar 2011
KALIN LINDENA
Bleib wie Du willst /Stay as You Wish/
21 January - 12 March, 2011
We are pleased to present “Bleib wie Du willst”, Kalin Lindena ́s third solo exhibition in our gallery. Kalin works in the media of sculpture, painting, collage, dance and video, which she conjoins in whole room-filling installations using a dialogical style of presentation. In this manner the artist creates stage-like interiors within which her artworks and their viewers are connected by a moment of movement, as Lindena likewise is – as a protagonist or character in her films, she physically positions herself in relation to her objects, and interacts with these as well as with other performers in a vivid choreography. In her work Kalin Lindena generates outlooks and vistas, insights on the visual relationship between the interior and the exterior, voiced in the gestures of her sculptures, the spatial framework in which her images are arranged, or as here in the scenery of objects, drawings and light sources set up in the gallery space. Light and shadow become elements on a par with colour, shape and material itself to inscribe space on haptic as well as imaginary levels.
Kalin Lindena ́s exhibition in our Karlsruhe gallery space is based on her new video “Gehtanz Teil II” (“Walking Dance Part II”), which was created as part of Lindena ́s previous exhibition in the Sprengel Museum Hannover – on the occasion of the award (Sprengel-Preis) she received. The epicentre of the collaged sequence of scenes about shape, humans and space is a stage around which the narration of the video revolves: by walking across a stage and plotting a sequence of movements on the surface of the stage area the artist generates and performs an abstract dance, the choreography of which is developed from a synthesis of construction and improvisation. This “Gehtanz” – simultaneously the spatial positioning of self and the search for orientation within a pre-defined spatial construction – shifts between a motion flow and the suspension of movement, which solidifies into memory, view and plan in the filmed image, and is fused together by the video piece itself. The choreography of the film images combines current artwork of Lindena ́s with earlier pieces – termed “extras”, which play upon the spatial setting of the dance, as well as enclosing the already existent and that which is coming into existence in the piece.
The figure-like sculptures, arranged as ensembles or isolated – which function as props in the video and in the actual exhibition space in our gallery – feature a colour and composition scheme reminiscent of Modernism, which is also echoed in the spatial and visual expression of the various image and stage situations of the video. Graphic colour fields, which inscribe the room with occlusion; the dance with and of paper figures, which then freeze in their movement flow, fragments of writing approach and then rip apart a definition; or sequences of steps that demarcate and transgress a certain scope – just as the individual image sequences become successively denser as frames and scenes in the video, the moving image finally dissolves into a cross-fading silhouette, into haziness and darkness. Music by the band TORNADO accompanies the film, leads the viewer into it and out again: Kalin Lindena collected various everyday sounds with a voice recorder; the spark of a lighter, a slide projector running, footsteps in snow, these were utilised by the band to compose a sound collage, a trace of reality that encompasses the body of the video like a frame or a stage curtain.
Christina Irrgang
translation by Zoe Miller
Bleib wie Du willst /Stay as You Wish/
21 January - 12 March, 2011
We are pleased to present “Bleib wie Du willst”, Kalin Lindena ́s third solo exhibition in our gallery. Kalin works in the media of sculpture, painting, collage, dance and video, which she conjoins in whole room-filling installations using a dialogical style of presentation. In this manner the artist creates stage-like interiors within which her artworks and their viewers are connected by a moment of movement, as Lindena likewise is – as a protagonist or character in her films, she physically positions herself in relation to her objects, and interacts with these as well as with other performers in a vivid choreography. In her work Kalin Lindena generates outlooks and vistas, insights on the visual relationship between the interior and the exterior, voiced in the gestures of her sculptures, the spatial framework in which her images are arranged, or as here in the scenery of objects, drawings and light sources set up in the gallery space. Light and shadow become elements on a par with colour, shape and material itself to inscribe space on haptic as well as imaginary levels.
Kalin Lindena ́s exhibition in our Karlsruhe gallery space is based on her new video “Gehtanz Teil II” (“Walking Dance Part II”), which was created as part of Lindena ́s previous exhibition in the Sprengel Museum Hannover – on the occasion of the award (Sprengel-Preis) she received. The epicentre of the collaged sequence of scenes about shape, humans and space is a stage around which the narration of the video revolves: by walking across a stage and plotting a sequence of movements on the surface of the stage area the artist generates and performs an abstract dance, the choreography of which is developed from a synthesis of construction and improvisation. This “Gehtanz” – simultaneously the spatial positioning of self and the search for orientation within a pre-defined spatial construction – shifts between a motion flow and the suspension of movement, which solidifies into memory, view and plan in the filmed image, and is fused together by the video piece itself. The choreography of the film images combines current artwork of Lindena ́s with earlier pieces – termed “extras”, which play upon the spatial setting of the dance, as well as enclosing the already existent and that which is coming into existence in the piece.
The figure-like sculptures, arranged as ensembles or isolated – which function as props in the video and in the actual exhibition space in our gallery – feature a colour and composition scheme reminiscent of Modernism, which is also echoed in the spatial and visual expression of the various image and stage situations of the video. Graphic colour fields, which inscribe the room with occlusion; the dance with and of paper figures, which then freeze in their movement flow, fragments of writing approach and then rip apart a definition; or sequences of steps that demarcate and transgress a certain scope – just as the individual image sequences become successively denser as frames and scenes in the video, the moving image finally dissolves into a cross-fading silhouette, into haziness and darkness. Music by the band TORNADO accompanies the film, leads the viewer into it and out again: Kalin Lindena collected various everyday sounds with a voice recorder; the spark of a lighter, a slide projector running, footsteps in snow, these were utilised by the band to compose a sound collage, a trace of reality that encompasses the body of the video like a frame or a stage curtain.
Christina Irrgang
translation by Zoe Miller