CLAUDIA COMTE
128 TRIANGLES AND THEIR DEMONSTRATION

ART BASEL MIAMI, COLLINS PARK, MIAMI, USA

1 DECEMBER – 4 DECEMBER 2016

Claudia Comte’s work regularly combines natural objects or surroundings with hypnotic, rigid geometric motifs drawn on a monumental scale. Using the possibilities created by the repetition and serialization of simple modular forms, her immersive wall paintings clash the formalism of Op art abstraction with a carefree twist on modernist sculpture.

128 TRIANGLES AND THEIR DEMONSTRATION, 2016
Acrylic on wall
300 x 600 x 15 cm

© Images Rafael Finelli

FEATURED ARTIST

CLAUDIA COMTE

Claudia Comte (b. 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) is an artist based in the countryside outside of Basel, Switzerland. She studied at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL (2004-2007) followed by a Masters of Art in Science of Education at Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-2010).

Comte works between media, often combining sculptures or installations with wall paintings to create environments where works relate to each other with a visual rhythm that is both methodical and playful. Her work is defined by her interest in the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand relates to d...