Claire de Santa Coloma
Claire de Santa Coloma (*1983, Buenos Aires) studied direct carving at the Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris as well as Visual Arts Research at Sorbonne. In 2017, she won the New Artists Award of the EDP Foundation. Currently she lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Made from found wood or wood that was brought to her, Claire de Santa Coloma’s works interrogate the central themes of sculpture as well as the creative methods that form its foundations. She specifically alludes to the vocabulary of twentieth-century abstract sculpture as a kind of archetype of the genre.
Her latest works display a figurativeness that is new for the artist; they are reminiscent of bodies, cult and fetish objects, or suggest – following an inverse logic – a “negative space” for the body. Wandering around the sculptures, set in dialogue by Santa Coloma in situ, evokes a sense of the familiar – a sensual, physical act of remembering that simultaneously connects us to human history and its close relationship with wood as a material.
Claire de Santa Coloma
Claire de Santa Coloma (*1983, Buenos Aires) studied direct carving at the Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris as well as Visual Arts Research at Sorbonne. In 2017, she won the New Artists Award of the EDP Foundation. Currently she lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Made from found wood or wood that was brought to her, Claire de Santa Coloma’s works interrogate the central themes of sculpture as well as the creative methods that form its foundations. She specifically alludes to the vocabulary of twentieth-century abstract sculpture as a kind of archetype of the genre.
Her latest works display a figurativeness that is new for the artist; they are reminiscent of bodies, cult and fetish objects, or suggest – following an inverse logic – a “negative space” for the body. Wandering around the sculptures, set in dialogue by Santa Coloma in situ, evokes a sense of the familiar – a sensual, physical act of remembering that simultaneously connects us to human history and its close relationship with wood as a material.
Mo–Sa, 11am – 6pm
Meierottostraße 1
10719 Berlin
T +49 30 88 71 13 71
mail@galeriefriese.de
www.galeriefriese.de
Mo–Sa, 11am – 6pm
Meierottostraße 1
10719 Berlin
T +49 30 88 71 13 71
mail@galeriefriese.de
www.galeriefriese.de