“Dragged” colour, expanded light. – Andrea del Guercio A shimmering white is perfectly spread in Claudia Desgranges studio, wrapping every corner and highlighting the polychrome presence on walls and papers, and artists‘ books still in process; the light falling from a single high ceiling is the result of different relationships between natural and electric lights, providing an atmosphere of total isolation. All external distraction being removed, the reading can focus on the relationship between working tools, materials and works, those that are still being drafted and the fully completed ones; the aesthetic enjoyment of Claudia Desgranges work is articulated through specific, targeted suggestions,

Chromographic painting The colour paintings created by Claudia Desgranges in the past few years use aluminium as their base. For the artist, the metal provides a neutral ground that does not absorb the colour but rather, as it were, into the room. Unlike a canvas or a paper ground into which the colour would penetrate and to which it would firmly stick, it does not form a bond with it. This distance creating quality of the metal combines with its colourless surface quality that, by reflecting the surroundings, seems to be every colour or none at the same time, provoking a tension curve

Reality, Color Memory and Painting Claudia Desgranges talks to Gisela Clement Clement: A lot has been said and written about your work already. People repeatedly point out connections with great painters of the last century; Albers, Rothko and Graubner are names that continually come up. How do you see these relationships, or are they mere acquaintances? Desgranges: I think it is difficult to classify my works. Of course, I work before a backdrop and consciousness of the history of painting. The Abstract Modern, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and Minimalism have all influenced me. At the same time, it is my goal to

Colours in time Imagine a time-lapse film shown too quickly – all one could make out would be stripes of colour, shapes merging, drifting apart, determined solely by their colour value. The same experience as when driving at high speed, when cities, people, landscapes whizz past the window, forming a neverending stream of merging impressions, predominantly determined by colours. Due to immense speed, the shapes and contents in both examples appear as stripes of colour- colour impressions determined by the speed, i.e. time in motion. The concrete is lost in the quick passage of time, in which it marks but a very brief

Cross-Fadings – Gabriele Uelsberg Three artistic interventions by artist Claudia Desgranges to and on Bonn properties of the MIWO Apartment Building and Management Company in the Rhineland In connection with the artist project “kunstundwohnen” (art and living), the Cologne artist Claudia Desgranges has placed herartistic interventions in public spaces in different phases of work. She has accomplished this by considerably changing the premises and the impression made by the apartment buildings with her use of film, objects, painting, and by intervening in the architecture. In her painting, her main creative medium, for many years now Claudia Desgranges has been dealing with interpreting painting