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This exhibition marks an incredible exercise in marketing and lateral thinking. Marie-Claire could be thought of as working in a kind of latter-day Pop art style both celebrating the possibilities of globalisation while critiquing its unkinder aspects…
Anthony Bond, Director Curatorial and Head Curator International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Australian Stock Exchange - Global company names and prices flicker across the room's huge wall board while preparations are finalised for an exhibition of paintings that explore the themes to which this building is devoted. The artist is Marie-Claire Baldenweg. Her exhibition has already been successfully displayed at the Swiss stock exchange…
James Waites
Financial Times, 02/2005

Set against the drama of the flickering stock market tickers and live news screens was Global Market - Bagflags of the World by the queen of plastic bag art, Marie-Claire Baldenweg. She created what was possibly a first - oil paintings featuring plastic bag designs set against various national flags. Wow!
Ros Reines
Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 02/2005

What better place to make a statement about the power of capitalism than the Australian Stock Exchange? The stock market tickers and news screens will have some competition from today in the form of Global Market - Bagflags of the World…
Clare Morgan
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 02/2005

By displaying her Bagflags in the Australian Stock Exchange, Baldenweg adds a sharp edge to her slick pop art aesthetic. Outside, frenzied shoppers clutch real plastic bags in pursuit of retail therapy; inside, Baldenweg´s paintings are illuminated by the lights of the global economy flickering overhead.
Tracey Clement
SMH Metro, Australia, 03/2005

ASX flies plastic flags of global capitalism
The main hall of ASX will be transformed into an "art space"…
James Hall
Australian Financial Review, 02/2005

Bagflags of world unite - Plastic bags make a statement.
To reinforce the strength of the paintings`message, they are displayed at the most symbolic marketplaces of our time - stock exchanges.
Paul Hayes
City Weekly, Australia, 02/2005

Initial public offering of the plastic bag
Perhaps you will step into the Stock Exchange in Sydney these days, and if it wasn't for the big screen with flickering stock market tickers you may well find yourself getting the impression of having landed at the wrong address. Then the Hall is primarily dominated by paintings.
Rudolf Hermann
NZZ, Switzerland, 03/2005