Background
Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born Switzerland.
Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born 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 popular-art 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 People’s 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) Foreign the Swiss artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg plastic carrier bags are "a typical symbol of our capitalistic high glossand hi-tech era." (ART Magazin, Germany, 11/2003).
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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 People’s 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)
Foreign the Swiss artist Marie-Claire Baldenweg plastic carrier bags are "a typical symbol of our capitalistic high glossand hi-tech era." (ART Magazin, Germany, 11/2003).