Art in the Bar: Cornelia Baltes

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Their bold graphic qualities often spill out over the surface and on to the walls and surrounding architecture in which they inhabit.

For Chapter’s Lightbox, Baltes has created a new site-specific work – two giant cartoon hands emerge from either side of the building's entrance, reaching to clasp each other in a handshake. This ‘body’ of work also extends to our caffi bar where more hands, fingers and arms dangle from glass ceilings and protrude around walls, claiming the space as their own.

BIOGRAPHY

Cornelia Baltes (b. 1978, Mönchengladbach, Germany, based in London and Berlin) gained her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011). Recent solo shows include ‘Capri’ Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017); ‘Drunk Octopus wants to fight’ Limoncello, London, UK (2016); ‘Tiny Dancer’ Kunstverein Ulm, Germany; ‘Turner’ Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2015); ‘Your Swath, My Jab’ DREI, Cologne, Germany, ‘Schnick Schnack Schnuck’ Limoncello, London, UK (both 2013); ‘Hooloovoo’ Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK (2012). Recent group shows include ‘JUMP’ Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark; ‘31 Women’ DK Breese | Little, London, UK; ‘Jump Ball’ Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece (all 2017) ‘Catherine Biocca, Cornelia Baltes, Rosalie Schweiker’, Mission Gallery, Swansea, UK (2016) ‘Feel the discourse’ Guest Projects, London, UK (2015) 

www.corneliabaltes.com