Marie-Claire Baldenweg
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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 27 March 1954) is a Swiss-Australian contemporary artist.
Life and work
Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born in Switzerland.
Since the early seventies almost all of her oil paintings feature the motif of a plastic shopping bag. Her style is a mix of photorealism and pop-art.[1]
She lives in Byron Bay, is married to musician Pfuri Baldenweg and is the mother of three children.
Shows
- In 1988 the Powerhouse Museum (Hyde Park Barracks) hosted a 6 months solo exhibition called "Carried Away".
- In 2003 the Swiss Stock Exchange hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World".
- In 2005 the Australian Stock Exchange hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World".[2]
Quotes
- The queen of plastic bag art, Marie-Claire Baldenweg. (Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 02/2005)
- Marie-Claire could be thought of as working in a kind of latter-day Pop art style both celebrating the possibilities of globalisation while critiquing its unkinder aspects. (Anthony Bond, Director Curatorial and Head Curator International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales)
- For the Swiss artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg plastic carrier bags are "a typical symbol of our capitalistic high gloss- and hi-tech era." (ART Magazin, Germany, 11/2003)[3]
References
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External links
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- Living people
- 20th-century Swiss painters
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- Pop artists
- Australian people of Swiss descent
- Photorealist artists
- Swiss contemporary artists
- 20th-century Australian women painters
- 21st-century Swiss women painters
- 21st-century Australian women painters
- 20th-century Swiss women painters