Marie-Claire Baldenweg Explained

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

Life and work

Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born in Switzerland.

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 and pop-art.^[1]

She lives in Byron Bay, is married to musician Pfuri Baldenweg and is the mother of three children.

Shows

• 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".^[2]

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)^[3]

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kultpavillon - der KunstBlog: Kunstmuseum Olten: Marie-Claire Baldenweg. 2 August 2006.
2. http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/WhatsOn/html/custom/2237-this-month.asp?MonthYear=Mar-2005
3. Web site: Marie-Claire Baldenweg . 2010-03-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707205713/http://www.baldenweg.com/press_content_d.asp . 7 July 2011 .