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Mircea Cantor
NationalityRomanian
Known forVideo, Animation, Sculpture, Drawing, Painting Conceptual Art
AwardsRicard Prize

Mircea Cantor (born 1977, in Romania) is a visual artist who has received wide acclaim for his subtle commentary on issues of contemporary society. This includes, on a larger scale, the positives and negatives of globalization. On a more specific scale, this includes characteristics of Romanian folk traditions such as with his photograph "'Hiatus"' (2008) which presents scaled-up version of traditional wool spindle or his other monumental work the "'Arch of triumph"' (2008).

His work follows in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp in that he employs Readymade objects or iconography to elicit the ambiguities of everyday life in this postmodern era of cultural overlap with the disintegration of cultural boundaries.[1] Cantor's choice of media is diverse, in that he has employed video, animation, sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation in his practice[2].

Cantor's 2005 video work, "'Deeparture", which was on view in the contemporary galleries at The Museum of Modern Art, features a deer and a wolf together in a pristine white box environment which works to heighten the palpable tension. His visual effect is often ambiguous - often left for the viewer to make sense of. Cantor's work is included in The Museum of Modern Art[3], New York, the Walker Art Center[4], Minneapolis, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania as well as in other collections worldwide.

Mircea Cantor is represented in Paris by Yvon Lambert Gallery[5], in Tel Aviv by Dvir Gallery by [6] and in Rome by Magazzino.[7]

Selected solo exhibitions

  • Heilige blumen (Holy Flowers), Kunsthalle Nuremberg, December 2010
  • Klug wie die Schlangen und einfältig wie die Tauben (Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, July 2010
  • Which light kills you, The Common Guild, Glasgow, November 2009
  • Tracking Happiness, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, September, 2009
  • Seven Future Gifts, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, September 2008
  • Ciel Variable, FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France, 2007
  • The Title Is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006
  • Born to be Burnt, Gamec, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, 2006
  • Deeparture, Yvon Lambert Gallery New York, 2005
  • Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2005

Selected group exhibitions

  • Promesses du passe, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010
  • Art for the world at World Expo Shanghai, Shanghai China, 2010
  • Barock MADRE, Napoli 2009
  • The world is yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2009
  • Universal code, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2009
  • 28th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, 2008
  • Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2007
  • Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2007
  • Power Play Artpace, San Antonio, USA, 2007
  • 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2006
  • Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, 2006
  • Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, 1995–2005, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, 2005
  • Quick-sand, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2004
  • 50th Venice Biennale - Clandestine section, 2003

Notes and references

  1. ^ Demos, T.J. "Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing". Philadelphia: Harper Perennial, 2006
  2. ^ Art Net Info
  3. ^ Moma link to artists site
  4. ^ Walker Art Center
  5. ^ Mircea Cantor at Yvon-Lambert.com
  6. ^ Mircea Cantor at Dvir Gallery
  7. ^ [1]

External links

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