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Mircea Cantor
Born1977
Romania
NationalityRomanian
Known forVideo, Animation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Conceptual Art
AwardsMarcel Duchamp Prize, 2011
Ricard Prize, 2004

Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a Romanian-born artist.

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; in 2011 he won Best Dance Short Film at Tiburon International Film Festival with Tracking Happiness movie. Also in 2011 he is the winner of Marcel Duchamp Prize 2011 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

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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