Born in 1977 in Oradea, Romania.
Lives and works in Paris, France and Cluj
Napoca, Romania. The visual artist Mircea Cantor has received wide acclaim
for his subtle commentary on issues of contemporary society. Cantor's
work is included in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris as well as in other collections worldwide.
Selected
projects:
Tracking
2009,
Happiness
min
video,
11
In this film, he studies the paradox of an age in which traces are perpetually left
and deleted. Tracking Happiness shows a group of women dressed in white walking
barefoot across white sand. As they move in single file, each wields a broom to
erase all traces of the woman who came before her. A harsh white light softens the
limits of their immediate surroundings, which seem infinite. The mystical
appearance of these women contrasts with the banality of what they are doing, and
the music composed by Adrian Gagiu infuses the film with an uncanny
atmosphere.
See some of Mircea Cantors works, including Tracking Happiness on Vernissage TV
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Interview with Mircea Cantor at artnet.fr, october 2011
Events:
2012-03-03 - Restless: Films and Other Works by Mircea Cantor - Co-presented by
Museum of the Moving Image and the Romanian Cultural Institute New York
2011-10-23 - Mircea Cantor wins top French prize - FIAC, Paris, France
2011-09-16 - Mircea Cantor More Cheeks Than Slaps - Le Crdac - Centre dart
contemporain dIvry, Ivry, France
2011-08-08 - Yokohama Triennale 2011 - Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama,Japan
2011-03-28 - The traditional Maramure rugs of Victoria Berbecaru and Mircea
Cantors flying carpet - La Maison Francaise, Washington D.C
2011-02-17 - Investigations of a Dog, Works from the FACE collections - Magasin 3
Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2010-10-21 - Mircea Cantor at FIAC, Paris - Cinphmre in the Tuileries Gardens,
Paris, France
2010-10-01 - An image instead of title and Figurative paintings in Romania - 19702010 - Club Electro Putere, Craiova, Romania
2010-10-01 - The Interpreted City - Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea (CGAC),
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2010-09-23 - A Shot in the Dark - Medtronic Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
2010-09-15 - "Police Disco" Mircea Cantor at Museum Abteiberg - Goethe Institut,
Chicago, USA
2010-09-11 - Mircea Cantor: Shooting - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010-06-18 - Over the Counter - Mcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
2010-05-01 - Art for the World (The Expo) - The Expo Boulevard, Shanghai, China
2010-05-01 - Romanian Cultural Resolution - Sonderausstellung in der
Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany
2010-04-16 - Mircea Pinte Collection at the Museum of Art Cluj - Museum of Art
Cluj, Cluj, Romania
2010-04-14 - Promises from the past - Centre Pompidou - Muse National dArt
Moderne, Paris, France
2010-02-16 - Fische hinterlassen keine Spuren - Federico Luger, Milan - Italia;
Knstlerhaus Bremen
2010-01-15 - Indefinite Destinations - DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2010-01-14 - Fall Out Desire and Disengagement in Contemporary Art - Malm
Konsthall, Malm, Sweden
2009-12-12 - BAROCK Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary
Age - Madre Museo dArte Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
2009-11-14 - MIRCEA CANTOR Which light kills you - A proposition by Ami Barak 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow, Great Britain
2009-10-21 - Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE collection - Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italia
2009-09-20 - Cetinje Biennial V / Love It or Leave It - different venues in Cetinje,
Tirana and Dubrovnik, Montenegro
2009-06-10 - Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe - Laboratorio Scientifico della
Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Veneziano, Venice, Italy
2008-09-05 - BERLIN SHOW #1 - Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany
2008-05-17 - Dada East? Romanian Contexts of Dadaism - Zacheta National Gallery
of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2008-01-23 - Public Art Bucharest - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2006-09-20 - Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire - Cabaret Voltaire,
Zurich, Switzerland
2004-12-17 - COSMOPOLIS 1 : Microcosmos - X - Macrocosmos - Macedonian
Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
In the Press:
2010-01-28 - Art reviews: Luke Fowler/Mircea Cantor - The Scotsman
2009-09-01 - The New Roman(ian) Order - Modern Painters
2008-08-01 - The Olimpics of Art: Art Basel - Art Babel 2004-06-04 - A New Generation and New Fetishisms in Romanian Contemporary
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