Claudia Comte
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Claudia Comte | |
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| Born | 1983 (age 42–43) Grancy, Switzerland |
| Education | École cantonale d'art de Lausanne |
| Known for | Sculpture, installation art, wall painting |
| Website | www |
Claudia Comte (born 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) is a Swiss artist.[1] She lives and works in Basel.[2] Comte works in a variety of media including sculpture, engraving,[3][4] installation[5] murals and painting.[6][7]
Education
[edit]Comte studied visual arts at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) from 2004 to 2007.[8][2] She subsequently completed a master's degree in science of education at the Haute École pédagogique in Lausanne in 2010.[8]
Work
[edit]Comte became known for wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw and finished by hand, typically presented within site-specific installations that combine sculpture with graphic, geometric wall paintings.[8][9] Her work references the geometric vocabulary of modernist art while introducing elements of play and humour.[10] Her first solo exhibition in the United States, No Melon No Lemon, was held at Gladstone Gallery in New York in 2015.[9]
In 2016 she installed a group of six-ton Carrara marble sculptures in the form of rabbits in City Hall Park in Manhattan as part of a Public Art Fund exhibition, and in 2017 her work Curves and Zig Zags was shown at the inaugural Desert X exhibition in the Coachella Valley.[10] Also in 2017, her installation NOW I WON, curated by Chus Martínez, occupied the Messeplatz at Art Basel: a functioning funfair with seven activity booths set beneath a large-scale sculpture spelling out the palindromic title.[11]
From 2018 her work increasingly engaged with marine ecology. After taking part in a TBA21–Academy expedition to New Zealand in 2018, she completed a residency at the Alligator Head Foundation in Port Antonio, Jamaica, in 2019.[12] During the residency she created The Cacti Series, a group of cast concrete cactus sculptures permanently installed on the seabed of the East Portland Fish Sanctuary; the sculptures were designed to serve as a substrate for coral growth as part of the sanctuary's reef regeneration programme.[12] The forms were based on wooden sculptures Comte had carved with a chainsaw and then reproduced in reinforced concrete using 3D scanning.[12] Work developed during the residency was later shown in the exhibition After Nature at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid in 2021.[13]
Comte has also worked in marble. Her public installation Five Marble Leaves (2022) at Central Wharf Park in Boston consists of leaf-shaped Carrara marble sculptures accompanied by plaques quoting environmental activists including Greta Thunberg, Jane Goodall and David Attenborough.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Claudia Comte - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- 1 2 "Biography". claudiacomte.ch. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ "14 Emerging Women Artists to Watch in 2017". artnet News. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ↑ "Musée des beaux-arts - Claudia Comte". Musée des beaux-arts. Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ↑ "Claudia Comte – Big Bob, his square friend and their diamond totem - Credit Suisse". www.credit-suisse.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ↑ Cohen, Alina (19 February 2019). "These Women Artists are Transforming Gallery Walls with Incredible Murals". Artsy. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ↑ The Editors of ARTnews (16 January 2019). "Claudia Comte at Gladstone Gallery, New York". Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - 1 2 3 4 "Claudia Comte". Ocula. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 "NO MELON NO LEMON". Gladstone Gallery. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 "Claudia Comte: Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags)". Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ "Basel's Messeplatz to be transformed into a funfair". Art Basel. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 3 Cascone, Sarah (2019-08-19). "Artist Claudia Comte on Why She Installed Permanent Underwater Sculptures Off Jamaica's Coast". Artnet News. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ "Claudia Comte: After Nature". TBA21. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
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