photos: André Morin © Claudia Comte . + 40mcube
In Claudia Comte’s works one can recognise a dichotomy between the interest in formal examination and the desire to free oneself of a certain heaviness. While geometric shapes dominate most of her installations there is always a moment of release, a relief from what is generally characterised as visual precision and traceability. This ambivalence is not based on the fact that Claudia Comte is not satisfied with the exploration of pictorial characteristics, which could be seen as a continuation of the Avant Guard tradition that 1930 with Concrete Art explored the process of composition with its rigid and universal elements. On the contrary… it is about keeping up a constant dialogue between rationalistic pictoriality and that, which principally does not fall into this area.
Julien Verhaeghe
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