Claudia Comte
Posted by Fabio 16 October 2013
Claudia Comte draws from a hyper-eclectic range of sources and picks unashamedly from all creative fields, from design, theatre, garden and interior architecture, from fashion and fine arts. All sources of inspiration, of original, copied, fake or other crepuscule nature, are treated equally. No matter if she makes a polychrome car-lacquered MDF floor sculpture based on Homer Simpson’s carpet, or a series of shaped canvases featuring black-and-white line paintings, Comte addresses the equally important discussions around painting today, some fifty years after Frank Stella’s infamous remark (often cited in regard to the theory on the end of painting): “What you see is what you see.” Sources are flattened, interpretational hierarchies are thrown overboard. Metaphors and references are mashed-up; they are serious and rigorous in intention but retain a twinkling eye. They are always ready to burst out laughing._Samuel Leuenberger
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