The Ceramic Fire Coral (Light Orange)
Claudia Comte
Sculpture - 37.8 x 10.1 x 34.5 cm Sculpture - 14.9 x 4 x 13.6 inch
€21,180
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The Ceramic Fire Coral (White),
2025
Claudia Comte
Sculpture : ceramic
37.8 x 10.1 x 34.5 cm 14.9 x 4 x 13.6 inch
€21,180
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37.8 x 10.1 x 34.5 cm 14.9 x 4 x 13.6 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Sculpture sold with wood pedestal
Dimensions of pedestal:
32 x 6.5 x 45 cm
12.6 x 2.6 x 17.7 inch
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Artwork location: France
The(2025) emerge from Claudia Comte's ongoing engagement with the natural world through her distinctive sculptural language. Building on her exploration of organic motifs—cacti, corals, and leaves—this series marks her first rendering of the five-pointed coral in ceramic. Drawing from marine biology and the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs, Comte uses this work to reflect on the delicate balance of life within marine environments and the broader environmental challenges they face.
The articulate a nuanced tension between fragility and resilience. The natural fire coral, known for its painful toxin-laden branches, symbolizes vitality intertwined with vulnerability. Comte's ceramic interpretation captures this paradox, emphasizing both the beauty and precarity of these organisms. The gradient of the sculptures—13 unique colors transitioning from white to black through shades of yellow and red—evokes the warming oceans and the specter of coral bleaching, a vital reference to the environmental pressures facing marine ecosystems today.
The use of ceramic, a material that combines delicacy with permanence, further underscores the inherent tensions in representing the resilience and fragility of natural systems. By highlighting the paradoxical qualities of fire coral, its capacity for defense and its susceptibility to external threats, Comte's work examines the physical and symbolic transformations these organisms endure under escalating environmental stress.
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The Ceramic Fire Coral (Black)
Claudia Comte
Sculpture - 37.8 x 10.1 x 34.5 cm Sculpture - 14.9 x 4 x 13.6 inch
€21,180
The Ceramic Fire Coral (Medium Red)
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Sculpture - 37.8 x 10.1 x 34.5 cm Sculpture - 14.9 x 4 x 13.6 inch
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Presentation
Claudia Comte (b. 1983, Grancy) is a Swiss artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Working across site-specific installation, painting and sculpture, her practice is guided by a longstanding interest in teasing out the history and memory of biomorphic forms through traditional hand processes, industrial and machine technologies. At the heart of Comte's installations are monumental wall paintings and serial sculptures inspired by organic patterns and morphology such as waves, sonar, cacti and rock strata, that are playfully recomposed within fluid and immersive environments. Drawing on the powers of communication, knowledge and symbiosis between animal and plant life, Comte's dynamic and shape-shifting objects pay testament to the intelligence and transformative capacities of the ecological world.
Her work has been widely presented in solo and group exhibitions, including , Globus Public Art Project in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2023); , Gladstone Gallery, Seoul (2023); , Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido (2023); , Albarran Bourdais, Madrid (2022); , König Galerie im KHK Wien (2022); , Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2022); , Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2021); , Castello di Rivoli (2019); , MOCA Cleveland (2018); , Messeplatz, Art Basel (2017); and , Kunstmuseum Luzern (2017).
Passionate about using art as a tool for connecting marine conservation, policy change and climate education, she has collaborated with several organizations on projects, including a residency and underwater commission developed with TB21-Academy in 2019 to raise awareness of coral health around the Alligator Head Foundation in Jamaica.
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