Claudia Comte

Swiss artist Claudia Comte (b.1983) has achieved broad recognition both sides of the Atlantic for a practice that blends stringent yet playful geometric abstraction with the emotional punch of large-scale raw materials. To date she has had exhibitions at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich and the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris to name just two; a solo commission for the Public Art Fund in New York will be unveiled in 2017. One inspiration for her work is the Lausanne school of abstraction, though cartoons and science-fiction, as well as text and communication design are equally important references. These find form in shaped-canvas paintings and sculpture series, the latter created most often in wood. Comte is a hands-on sculptor, who uses a chainsaw to give shape to her pieces and ultimately sands them into regular or amorphous bodies.

CC, the necklace
Comte’s necklace for GEMS AND LADDERS is made from mammoth bones the artist discovered during a residency in Siberia. The material…
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CC, the necklace
Comte’s necklace for GEMS AND LADDERS is made from mammoth bones the artist discovered during a residency in Siberia. The material…
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