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Claude Como

Since the 1980s, Claude Como has used oil painting, ceramics, resin, charcoal and wool to explore his own history and experiment with his relationship to the realities of the world, where the living finds a central place. By constantly confronting volume and flatness, Claude Como builds his work around the living; today, his free tufted forms are radically free of the frame.

In 2019, Claude Como began a series of tapestries made using a tufting gun, traditionally used by craftsmen to make carpets, which depict abundant plant elements and lush micro-organisms, entitled Supernature. Through their flexibility, these tapestries emerge from the frame to literally colonize the walls and give an organic character to the architecture that houses them. The choice of tufting places the artist in a history of tapestry. Claude Como willingly inserts herself into a history of Western art that she enjoys exploring to rework the major classifications or subjects considered traditional. The tufted works participate in a reactivation and extension of a history of tapestry. Nothing is fixed, everything is redefinable. The cut-out shapes are articulated between them to benefit sprawling, moving and rhizomic installations.

 

With a mixed feeling of wonder and gravity, she presents decontextualized bodies, scenes deprived of horizons, suspended ecosystems. The artist builds her work from notions such as uprooting, movement, absence, impermanence, death and possible rebirths.

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Julie Crenn, Doctor of art history, art critic (AICA) and independent exhibition curator.
Text excerpts (2022)

THE WORKS

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