Marie-Claire Baldenweg
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Marie-Claire Baldenweg (*1954 born Switzerland) is a Swiss/Australian contemporary artist. She lives in Byron Bay, is married to musician Pfuri Baldenweg and mother of 3 children.
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[edit] Trademark
Since the early seventies almost all of her oil paintings feature the motif of a plastic shopping bag. Her style could be described as a mix of photorealism and pop-art.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Highlights
- 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".
