Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 27 March 1954) is a Swiss-Australian contemporary artist.

Life and work

Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. 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 Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...

and pop-art. She lives in

Byron Bay Byron Bay ( Minjungbal: ''Cavvanbah)'' is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales, Australia on Bundjalung Country. It is located north of Sydney and south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a hea ...

, is married to musician Pfuri Baldenweg and is the mother of three children.

Shows

*In 1988 th
Powerhouse Museum
(Hyde Park Barracks) hosted a 6 months solo exhibition called "Carried Away". *In 2003 the

Swiss Stock Exchange SIX Swiss Exchange (formerly SWX Swiss Exchange), based in Zurich, is Switzerland's principal stock exchange (the other being Berne eXchange). SIX Swiss Exchange also trades other securities such as Swiss government bonds and derivatives such as ...

hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World". *In 2005 the

Australian Stock Exchange Australian Securities Exchange Ltd or ASX, is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange (sometimes referred to outside of Australia as, or confused within Australia as, ...

hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World".

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 The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

) *''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)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldenweg, Marie-Claire 1954 births Living people 20th-century Swiss painters 21st-century Swiss painters 20th-century Swiss women artists 21st-century Swiss women artists Pop artists Australian women painters Australian people of Scandinavian descent Photorealist artists Swiss women painters Swiss contemporary artists