Finalist of the Broomhill Sculpture Prize

Claudia Borgna

Friday, 23 September 2011

Bemis Auction coming up soon

This is my third year that I have the privilege to be part of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Auction Program.

If you are interested check it out, here is the link: http://bcartsales.org/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=2755

As most people already know I don't sell art work unless for a good cause or as mean of exchange.
The proceeds of the sale of this work will be donated to the Center to support the work of other artists that like me greatly benefited of the residency program.
If you can please support my work and the Bemis Art Center.

formatting
Formatting
Bemis Center

formatting
Formattingformatting


Claudia Borgna
formatting
Claudia Borgna graduated from Genoa University (Italy) in Foreign Literature in 1998 and received a Fine Art BA degree from London Metropolitan University (UK) in 2005. Since then she has been leading a nomadic life style exhibiting nationally and internationally while attending fellowship residency programmes. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell, the Pollock-Krasner Grant and the Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award as well as the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship Award. Voted the ‘Public Speaks’ winner for the 2010 Broomhill National Sculpture Prize (UK), she also was short-listed for the BBC2 documentary: “School of Saatchi” and for the British Women Artists Prize. Claudia’s artificial landscapes are the materialization of an ongoing observation and questioning of how the ‘plastic’ and the natural realms interact with one another and thereby come to create new ephemeral orders. Her flimsy, constructions are only intended for the moment: apt to collapse and subject to change.
Artist's Website:
http://www.claudiaborgna.keepfree.de 

formatting		formatting
      
formatting
FormattingClaudia Borgna - HAND PICKED AND NOT FOR SALE!
HAND PICKED AND NOT FOR SALE!, 2011
Mixed media,  11 x 23 x 3 in.
Buy It Now: $1,450

Formatting


Inquire about this work  Comments

0 CHARS / 200 REMAINING.
LINKS ARE NOT PERMITTED.
Email *

 Type text above.

formatting
Formattingformatting
Formatting
Formatting
Copyright  
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
Phone: 402.341.7130 | Fax: 402.341.9791  Facebook   Twitter 
formatting
ManagedArtwork.com
Posted by No comments:

Thank you Angela Roberts-Christ

A real nice Review on the insight of my work by Angela Roberts Christ on the Saatchi online Magazine.  To read the review click or go to this link:

http://magazine.saatchionline.com/critics-top-ten/claudia-borgna-saatchi-online-critics-choice-by-angela-roberts-christ

http://studiovisit.com/category/online-top-10/


Claudia Borgna: Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice By Angela Roberts Christ

By Angela Roberts Christ · August 22, 2011 · Critic's Top 10 · Tagged: 
Claudia Borgna transforms mundane white plastic bags into sculptures/installations that recall Romanticism in their approach to the culture-nature dichotomy. What is most striking about her installations is not necessarily their transformation of the cheap, disposable, but universal plastic bag into works of unusual beauty, but her non-judgemental fascination with the material and its relationship to our environment. It’s difficult to find anything environmentally conscious or preachy in her work; on the contrary, Borgna seems singularly committed to revealing the splendour in these unexpected man-made formations.
This fascination is particularly evident in installations with wistful titles like ‘Never the same again: still searching for Newfoundland’, ‘blow me away if you can’ and ‘and they lived happily ever after’ where the ubiquitous plastic bags, usually associated with some of the worst excesses of consumerist culture, are transformed from suffocating objects of destruction into organic motifs. Borgna treats the bags -– always a visual hair’s breadth away from the dirty plastic bag we’ve all seen caught in the windshield of a car or in bare tree branches – almost as if they were natural objects. The random and haphazard interaction of the plastic bag with nature is here transformed into something more deliberate.
Although it is possible to view installations like ‘Never the same again: still searching for Newfoundland’ as a continuation of the Land art ethos of the 1970s, a fruitful comparison might also be made with the European movement loosely categorised as Romantic art. In the nineteenth century artists like Caspar David Friedrich saw in nature an expression of the philosophy of the sublime, which in general terms describes the pleasure (and existential terror) of looking at objects of great magnitude. Likewise, Borgna not only marvels at the extraordinary and possibly sinister effect that the plastic bag creates in nature, but also deliberately exaggerates this juxtaposition for greater visual effect. The stray plastic bag caught in nature in this case embodies a subverted concept of the sublime that includes man-made shapes of modernity as legitimate objects of wonder.
To see more of her work click here

About The Author

Angela Roberts Christ
Angela Roberts is a freelance writer currently living and working in Heidelberg, Germany.

One Comment

  1. Project M
    August 26, 2011 at 3:42 pm
    Some lovely and beautiful work. Thank you for drawing our attention to Claudia Borgna!
    Reply

Leave a Comment

 
 
 
← 
 →
Posted by No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)