Marie-Claire Baldenweg

Marie -Claire Baldenweg ( born March 27, 1954 in Solothurn, Switzerland ) is an international painter.

Life

Marie -Claire Baldenweg is married to the musician Pfuri Baldenweg. From the joint compound has three children, Nora, Diego and Lionel Vincent went out. She lives with her family in Byron Bay, Australia. The hallmark of their work is that they used plastic bags as the main subject in their works since the early 1970s. Her style can be described as a kind of pop art and photorealism.

Highlights

  • A six-month solo exhibition under the name " Carried Away " in 1988 aimed at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
  • The photo series " Global Market - Bagflags of the World " was made in 2003 on the Swiss Exchange and in 2005 on the Australian Stock Exchange in a museum exhibition to the public.

Quotes

  • The Queen of the plastic bag art ( Ros Reines, Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 02/ 2005)
  • Marie- Claire's work could be described as a contemporary pop art, which also celebrates the opportunities of globalization and criticizes the unschöneren aspects. (Anthony Bond, Director of Curatorial and Senior Curator International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02/ 2005)
  • Plastic carrier bags are for Marie Claire Baldenweg " an apt symbol of our capitalist high-gloss and high-tech era." (Petra Bosetti Art - The Art Magazine, Germany, 11/ 2003)
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