Marie-Claire Baldenweg

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

Shows

In 1988 the 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".

Quotes

The queen of plastic bag art, Marie-Claire Baldenweg.
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.
''For the Swiss artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg plastic carrier bags are "a typical symbol of our capitalistic high gloss- and hi-tech era."''