Claudia Comte

CLAUDIA COMTE at work, 2012

Welcome to Colorful, 2010
exhibition view at Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne

Welcome to Colorful, 2010
exhibition view at Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne

No Lemon No Melon, 2012
exhibition view at Tripode, Nantes
photo: JULIEN NEDELEC

Summer Villa, 2012
exhibition view at Aargauer Kunsthaus

sketches, 2010

works for No Lemon No Melon, 2012

Trouble Rainbow II, 2011
second part of the Trouble Rainbow trilogy in Los Angeles, Favorite Goods

Trouble Rainbow III, 2012
with ATHENE GALICIADIS and MELODIE MOUSSET
at BolteLang, Zurich

Many Kinds of Suspense Pictures, 2012
exhibition view at Kunsthaus Glarus

Multi Plakati, 2012
for Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne

Scantione-Tensione, 2011
display for The Swiss Cube 3
at Swiss Institut of Rom

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Scantione-Tensione, 2011
display for The Swiss Cube 3
at Swiss Institut of Rom

Exhibition-Performance, NATURALISÉS, 2009
collaboration with TATIANA RIHS at Arlaud museum, Lausanne

Demi-cercles, 2010

all images courtesy the artist, and their respective galleries

CLAUDIA COMTE’s work is concerned with perception, sculpture, and our relationship with nature. Her predominantly sculptural works are produced through a laboured process of shaping and reworking wood with a chainsaw almost always on the original site where the tree trunk was found.

My wooden sculptures are kind of modern totem-poles, composed of stacked, abstract forms which I create intuitively. I always start with a drawing or a dirt model before making them on a more or less human scale. Then, I transport the work to the space where it will be shown. Once it is in an exhibit, people like the smell of the wood and enjoy touching the sculpture. I like this type of physical rapport with the work. – CLAUDIA COMTE in conversation with JULIEN FRONSACQ

On the whole, her inspiration ranges from the early 20th century to today, from Brancusi to Pop Art, from Disney’s animations to both traditional and folkloristic artistic techniques. COMTE‘s objects make claims not just on memory but on the poetic imagination that sets it spinning – backward and forward.

Graduated from ECAL in Lausanne in 2007, Swiss artist CLAUDIA COMTE is participating at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and at the Kunsthaus Glarus, both in Switzerland and both on view through November 18, 2012. Additionally she will have two solo exhibitions next year:

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