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Mircea Cantor
Born1977
Oradea, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Known forVideo, Animation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Conceptual Art
Notable workDouble Heads Matches (2002-2003), The Landscape is Changing (2003), Deeparture (2005), Diamond Corn (2005), Monument for the End of the World (2006), Shadow for a While (2007), Rosace (2007), Hiatus (2008), DNA kiss (2008-2010), Arch of Triumph (2008), Seven Future Gifts (2008), Tracking Happiness (2009), Vertical Attempt (2009), Io (2009), Which Light Kills You (2010) Holy Flowers (2010), Rainbow (2010)
AwardsRicard Prize, 2004;

Zece pentru Romania' awards held by Realitatea TV, 2010;

Best Dance Short Film award, Tiburon International Film Festival, California, 2011

Mircea Cantor (born 1977, in Oradea) is a Romanian-born artist who lives and works in Paris and Cluj.

He has received critical attention 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, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthaus Zurich; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden as well as in other collections worldwide. He was awarded with Ricard Prize in Paris in 2004, also in 2011 he won Best Dance Short Film at Tiburon International Film Festival with Tracking Happiness movie. This year[when?] he is nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in Paris.

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

Selected solo exhibitions

  • Mircea Cantor: More Cheeks, than Slaps, Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, September 2011 (upcoming)
  • Mircea Cantor: Heilige Blumen (Holy Flowers), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, December 2010
  • Mircea Cantor: Klug wie die Schlangen und einfältig wie die Tauben (Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, July 2010
  • Mircea Cantor: Which Light Kills You, The Common Guild, Glasgow, November 2009
  • Mircea Cantor: Tracking Happiness, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, September, 2009
  • Mircea Cantor: Seven Future Gifts, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, September 2008
  • Mircea Cantor: Ciel Variable, FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France, 2007
  • Mircea Cantor: The Title Is the Last Thing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006
  • Mircea Cantor: Born to be Burnt, Gamec, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, 2006
  • Mircea Cantor: Deeparture, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, 2005
  • Mircea Cantor: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2005

Selected group exhibitions

  • Our Magic Hour - Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan, 2011
  • Big Brother: Artists and Tyrants, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France, 2011
  • The Workers, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA, 2011
  • Promesses du passe, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2010
  • Art for the World at World Expo Shanghai, Shanghai China, 2010
  • Barock MADRE, Napoli, Italy 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, Spain, 2006
  • Irreducible, Contemporary Short Form Video, 1995–2005, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, USA, 2005
  • Quick-sand, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 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. ^ http://www.magazzinoartemoderna.com/GALLERIA/bio_artista.php?id_artista=23

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