Claudia Comte's First Solo Show at Basement Roma

Claudia Comte (born 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) presented her first solo exhibition, "La ligne claire," at Basement Roma in 2017. Known for site-specific installations combining wooden sculptures with abstract wall paintings, Comte transformed the gallery space into a black-and-white grid of lines, merging Op art with a witty minimalism. The show continued her practice of reduction and simplification, which began in 2011 during her residency at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma. Geometric drawings extend into sectional plinths that host three marble starfish sculptures, projecting the two-dimensional wall intervention into three dimensions. Every corner of the space is intricately decorated with motifs of cheese, cactus, and bones, alongside large rhomboid canvases painted with concentric circles. The exhibition creates a "three-dimensional" dialogue between the solemnity of minimalism and the irony of small details.