Claudia Martignetti
About
Claudia Martignetti (b. 2001, London, England) is a London-based sculptor, currently completing her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Her practice explores ideas about the cute, uncanny and monstrous often through the body, transformation and pop-culture.
Repeatedly in Claudia’s sculptural practice, the artist transposes her own likeness onto cutesy nostalgic playthings, foods and characters. The artist mutates these unlikely sculptural forms with her own face and body parts. This distortion highlights a sinister sexuality and violence innate to the infantilised objects in question.
Though often grotesque in subject, Claudia Martignetti’s sculptures all appear to be dowsed in vibrant, saccharine colour. Inspired by the language of mass-produced plastic toys and old fairground rides, the artist combines freehand techniques with computerised and industrial processes. For example, hand-painting loudly coloured fibreglass sculptures, for the sake of being gaudy and crass.
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