The Morphing Scallops
January 11 — February 16, 2019
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition on new wall paintings by Claudia Comte, the artist’s first exhibition devoted to her painting practice.
“In the beginning was the wall. Before geo-politics, Pink Floyd or wall-drawing was the structure itself: a divider between us and the rest of the world, it builds on the promise of all civilization, of protection and enclosure, of distinguishing that which we have claimed as ours from that which is not. It is the wall, along with its agrarian cousin the fence that separates the mentalities of pirates and farmers, of those who settle and those who raid. How we celebrate that enclosure and how it has been breached – at various times by optics, religion and force – has been the subject of artists since time immemorial...”
—Neville Wakefield, 2018
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About
Photo by Gunnar Meier
Claudia Comte (b. 1983, Morges, Switzerland) lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Recent solo and group exhibitions include K&L Museum, Seoul, Korea (2024); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2023); LagoAlgo, Mexico City (2023); Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico (2023); Desert X, Alula, Saudi Arabia (2022), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2022), 58th October Salon - Belgrade Biennale (2022), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2021), Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2020); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2019), Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2019); MOCA Cleveland, Ohio (2018); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2018); KölnSkulptur #9, Cologne, Italy (2017); Basement Roma, Italy (2017); Messeplatz, Art Basel, Switzerland (2017); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2017); Desert X, Palm Springs, California (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2016); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2014).
