CLAUDIA COMTE (Grancy 1983–lives and works i.a. in Lausanne) Basic and Combinations. 2013. Portfolio of 18 colour woodcuts (3 series: Basic, Combinations 1 and Combinations 2). 11/18. Each work of the Combinations signed and dated with pencil on the reverse: Claudia Comte 2013, also numbered: 1-6 rep. 1A-6A. Basic series each with the stamp on the reverse: CLAUDIA COMTE. Sheet size 70*50 cm on wove paper by Fischer. Published by druckwerk, Basel. Printed by Marcel G?hring. Complete, in original boxes. Provenance: - LISTE Basel, 18 June 2013. - Purchased from the above by the present owner, since then private collection Switzerland. Born in Lausanne in 1983, the artist Claudia Comte is known above all for her exuberant, site-specific installations and wooden sculptures. Concrete art, Op or Pop Art, as well as comics and popular culture are among her sources of inspiration at the same time, the craft aspect plays a central role in her work. It is not uncommon for her to take up the saw, to mill, polish or grind the materials she chooses, from which playful grids, systems and patterns of geometric brilliance emerge. From her studio in Berlin, she works on exhibitions and installations that have been shown in Paris, Toulouse, New York, Palm Springs or at Art Miami, among other places in 2014, she received the Swiss Art Award, and, in 2017, the Museum of Art Lucerne presented her first large survey exhibition on an area of more than 1,000 square metres — a considerable and sophisticated ?uvre for an artist of 39 years of age. Her works show fragmentary echoes of Vasarely or Bridget Riley, but Comte is not content to quote her predecessors. Her boundless creativity and craftsmanship come together in newly conceived images. Comte humorously upends the constructs of Modernism, as the extensive show in Lucerne illustrates: her elaborately choreographed exhibition presents the viewer with walls painted in black and white, with sausages and cheese depicted in comic-strip format, a cactus forest made from trees from the Jura, which she herself worked using a chainsaw, marble donuts of various sizes, as well as a multitude of geometric-abstract woodcuts of every colour on the spectrum. The present series “Basic & Combinations” was created during LISTE18, in which Claudia Comte participated as a special guest. Every day a new woodcut was produced, cut into MDF with a chainsaw. The Basics & Combinations Edition is based on 6 plates, all printed during LISTE18. The Combinations comprise 6 variations with two basic colours, as well as 6 variations with three basic colours. In addition, the Basics series comprises 6 sheets in monochrome colours (yellow, orange, green, pink, violet and blue). By bringing together the geometric and the organic, Comte has created a return to childhood memories, which greatly inform her relationship to wood as a material, growing up as she did in a chalet in the countryside. Saturated colours in geometric grids, lozenges and zig-zag patterns also skilfully showcase the playful element of Comtes work in this series. Comte studied at the école Cantonale dArt de Lausanne, followed by a Master of Art in Science of Education at the Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne. The artists practice is based on a distinct system of rules and measurement that she has created herself, in which all the artworks are specifically related to one another. In 2018, she was awarded the Irène Reymond Foundation Prize and the Cultural Promotion Prize of the Alexander Clavel Foundation. In 2017, the Museum of Art Lucerne presented a comprehensive survey exhibition of Comtes work, and in 2022 her work will be included in the exhibition "Geometric Opulence" at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich. The artist lives and works in Berlin. CLAUDIA COMTE (Grancy 1983–lebt und arbeitet u.a. in Lausanne) Basic and Combinations. 2013. Portfolio von 18 Farbholzschnitten (3 Serien: Basic, Combinations 1 und Combinations 2). 11/18. Jedes Werk der Combinations verso mit Bleistift signiert und datiert: Claudia Comte 2013, sowie nummeriert: 1-6 bzw. 1A-6A. Basic-Serie jeweils verso mit dem Stempel: CLAUDIA COMTE. Blattgr?sse 70*50 cm auf Vélin von Fischer. Erschienen bei druckwerk, Basel. Gedruckt bei Marcel G?hring. Vollst?ndig, in Original-Kartons. Provenienz: - LISTE Basel, 18. Juni 2013. - Vom heutigen Besitzer an obiger Messe erworben, seitdem Privatsammlung Schweiz. Enth?lt die Serien Basic (1 - 6), sowie Combinations 1 (1 - 6) und 2 (1A - 6 A). Die 1983 in Lausanne geborene Künstlerin Claudia Comte ist vor allem für ihre ortsspezifischen, überbordenden Installationen und Holzskulpturen bekannt. Konkrete Kunst, Op- oder Pop-Art ebenso wie Comics und die Popul?rkultur z?hlen zu ihren Inspirationsquellen, zugleich nimmt der handwerkliche Aspekt in ihrem Schaffen einen zentralen Stellenwert ein. Nicht selten greift sie zur S?ge, fr?st, poliert oder schleift die von ihr ausgew?hlten Materialien, woraus sich verspielte Raster, Systeme und Abwicklungen von geometrischer Brillanz entpuppen. Von ihrem Atelier in Berlin aus arbeitet sie an Ausstellungen und Installationen, die unter anderem in Paris, Toulouse, New York, Palm Springs oder auf der Art Miami gezeigt werden 2014 erh?lt sie den Swiss Art Award, das Kunstmuseum Luzern pr?sentiert 2017 ihre erste grosse übersichtsausstellung auf über 1000 Quadratmetern – ein beachtliches und differenziertes Oeuvre, das die 39-J?hrige vorweisen kann. Ihre Arbeiten zeigen mit unter Bezüge zu Vasarely oder Bridget Riley, doch begnügt sich Comte nicht damit, ihre Vorbilder zu zitieren. In neu konzipierten Darstellungen finden sich ihre grenzenlose Kreativit?t und handwerkliches K?nnen vereinigt. Comte bringt das Gerüst des Modernismus humorvoll zum Kippen, wie die umfangreiche Schau in Luzern veranschaulicht: ihre aufwendig durchchoreographierte Ausstellung bietet dem Betrachter weiss-schwarz bemalte, gemusterte W?nde mit Würsten und K?se im Comic-Format, einen Kakteenwald aus Jura-B?umen, welche sie eigens mit der Kettens?ge bearbeitet hat, Marmor-Donuts verschiedenster Gr?ssen, sowie eine Vielzahl an geometrisch-abstrakten Holzschnitten jedes Farbenspektrums. Die vorliegende Serie Basic & Combinations entsteht w?hrend der LISTE 18, auf der Claudia Comte als special guest teilgenommen hat. Jeden Tag wird ein neuer Holzschnitt produziert, den sie mit einer Kettens?ge in MDF schneidet. Die Edition Basics & Combinations entsteht auf Grundlage von 6 Druckplatten. Die Combinations enthalten 6 Variationen aus zwei Grundfarben sowie 6 aus drei Grundfarben. Zus?tzlich enth?lt die Basics Serie 6 Bl?tter in monochromen Farben (gelb, orange, grün, pink, violett und blau). Comte kreiert durch die Zusammenkunft von Geometrie und Organischem eine Rückbesinnung auf Erinnerungen ihrer Kindheit, die ihren Bezug zum Material Holz so pr?gen, w?chst sie doch in einem Chalet auf dem Land auf. Satte Farben in geometrischen Rastern, Rauten und Zick-Zack-Mustern setzen das verspielte Element von Comtes Arbeit auch bei dieser Serie gekonnt in Szene. Comte studiert an der école Cantonale dArt de Lausanne, gefolgt von einem Master of Art in Science of Education an der Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne. Die Praxis der Künstlerin basiert auf einem von ihr selbst geschaffenen, ausgepr?gten Regel- und Messsystem, in dem jedes Kunstwerk spezifisch aufeinander bezogen ist. 2018 erh?lt sie den Prix 2018 der Fondation Irène Reymond und den Kulturf?rderpreis 2018 der Alexander Clavel Stiftung. 2017 zeigt das Kunstmuseum Luzern eine umfassende übersichtsschau Comtes, 2022 ist sie Teil der Ausstellung "Geometrische Opulenz" im Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. Die Künstlerin lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Lausanne.
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