La Ronde Viewing Room

The La Ronde Series

In her first solo exhibition at Phoenix Gallery (939 Madison Avenue, New York), the artist Siri Berg exhibited a new series of paintings titled La Ronde. The exhibition was curated by Bruno Palmer-Poroner, the director of the gallery.

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial play of the same title where one character from each of the seven stories passes to the next, winding up in a circle when the last person meets the first, Berg’s compositions feature a seven-part series of circles in color—one work leads into the next in a harmonizing tone.

In a review of the exhibition in Arts Magazine, Andrea Mikotajuk, interprets Berg’s conceptual approach:

Berg's paintings share this idea, with each set beginning and ending in the same color. A series of a basic seven may add more (or less units, may run vertically, horizontally, turn corners, go from wall to ceiling or vice versa) […] The flexibility of the pieces in the show are a part of their attraction, along with the way they are mounted, free floating from the wall. Their environments play an important part in the total effect. Also the space between each one is an integral part of each set, since it is the space that creates the circles; without the space between, there are no circles.