Marie-Claire Baldenweg

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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 . The relationship resulted in three children, Nora , Diego and Lionel Vincent . She lives with her family in Byron Bay, Australia . The hallmark of her work is that she has been using plastic bags as the main motif in her work since the early 1970s. Their style can be described as a kind of pop art and photorealism .

Highlights

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

Quotes

  • The queen of plastic bag art (Ros Reines, Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 02/2005)
  • Marie-Claire's work could be described as contemporary Pop Art, which at the same time celebrates the possibilities of globalization and criticizes the less beautiful aspects. (Anthony Bond, Director Curatorial and Chief Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales , 02/2005)
  • For Marie-Claire Baldenweg, plastic carrier bags are “a fitting symbol of our capitalist high-gloss and high-tech era”. (Petra Bosetti, Art - Das Kunstmagazin , Germany, 11/2003)

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personal data
SURNAME Baldenweg, Marie-Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Marie-Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn