CLAUDIA COMTE
CURVES AND ZIGZAGS

HOMME-ADAMS PARK, PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, USA
25 FEBRUARY – 30 APRIL 2017

CURVES AND ZIG ZAGS is the third work from an ongoing series of free-standing walls that straddle painting and sculpture. Comte’s practice embraces all media with equal ferocity and she uses this series to examine what happens when two-dimensional painting is superimposed on three-dimensional structure. Unlike graffiti artists, her walls are built specifically for the work they carry. In CURVES AND ZIG ZAGS, the painting starts with a stringent geometric composition that gradually morphs into a more organic wave-like pattern reminiscent of Bridget Riley's optical paintings or the gardens of Burle Marx. Playing on the constant exchange of dualities – nature and culture, order and chaos, geometric and organic form – Comte’s wall suggests a walk through the shifting sands of abstraction and on to a place where beauty and contemplation sit side by side.
CURVES AND ZIG ZAGS, 2017
acrylic wall painting on a double-sided wall,
3 x 30 meters

Curated by Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield.

© Images Lance Gerber 

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...
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