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.

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