This title outlines the agenda behind this, Claudia Comte’s first large-scale survey exhibition. The artist will use 10 rooms, create 40 wall paintings and fill 1,059 square metres. Needless to say, this is not just a diligent but routine job! The artist’s burgeoning installations, seductively polished sculptures and perfect colour gradients provide a great degree of pleasure. Comte makes reference to Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Pop Art and Concrete Art. She also allows herself to be inspired by popular culture: she uses a chainsaw to make larger-than-life cactuses out of tree trunks, she grinds huge rabbits’ ears out of marble, and discovers the shapes of dinosaur bones concealed in industrial design.

Craftsmanship is central to the work of Claudia Comte. The artist loves grids, systems and patterns; she saws, grinds, mills and polishes, and her unusual enthusiasm is also tangible. With humour and intelligence Claudia Comte will present a dizzying range of works at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, beginning with outsize swings and ending with a smile on our lips.