CLAUDIA COMTE
IN NATURE NOTHING EXISTS ALONE

PESCIA FIORENTINA, CAPALBIO, ITALY
16 JULY – 30 SEPTEMBER 2022

Hypermaremma 2022 is pleased to present, in collaboration with CURA, IN NATURE NOTHING EXISTS ALONE, a site-specific environmental installation by Claudia Comte. Spanning over one hundred meters in length, the work is composed entirely of pine logs sourced from nearby Monte Amiata, a formerly volcanic mountain in lower Tuscany. The trunks spell out the eponymous phrase, which was adapted from a text by pioneering American biologist and scientist,  Rachel Carson. The logs will be repurposed for construction use once the Hypermaremma exhibition closes in September.
IN NATURE NOTHING EXISTS ALONE is among the most formidable environmental installations that Comte has created to date, building on her previous investigations of site-determined work that deal with issues of climate change, ecology, and global pollution, based precisely on the observation of the rules of nature and its mutable forms.
© Courtesy Hypermaremma
© Images Hypermaremma and Giorgio Benni

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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