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4/10/2011

Mircea Cantor

Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg

In the fall of 2011 the Salzburger Kunstverein will present Austria’s first solo exhibition of the Romanian artist Mircea Cantor.

His condensed installations, videos, and photographs deal with today’s world and produce unexpectedly new and vivid images with which to interpret it. They explore society, politics, and the globalized present with its frequently fractured, contradictory realities. Mircea Cantor’s artwork is not defined by a specific signature style or a preferred medium. Rather he is able to generate pieces of profound existential significance seemingly effortlessly, “That’s the reason I am an artist. To concentrate the message, and not to have a passivity toward a certain reality.” *

The artist often finds these concentrated messages in everyday tracks that form on glass, on the wall, or in sand. For example, in the exhibit he presents the video piece Tracking Happiness, a round dance of women walking in a circle, each one erasing the tracks in the sand left by the woman ahead of her, a Sisyphean task or the never-ending pursuit of happiness. A new neon piece with the eponymous name Phishing is also being produced for the exhibition.

Mircea Cantor, born 1977 in Romania, lives and works on earth. He has been nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2011, France’s most prestigious award for contemporary art.

*The Washington Post, 28. Oktober 2007, M10

Image: Mircea Cantor, Tracking Happiness, 2009, 11 min, stills from the film, S -16mm transfered on HDCAM, Sound: Adrian Gagiu, © 2009 Mircea Cantor
Photo: Courtesy the artist; Yvon Lambert, Paris and Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv

Press preview: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11 a.m.
Opening:Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 7 p.m

Salzburger Kunstverein
Hellbrunner Strasse 3 - Salzburg
Opening hours exhibition:
Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon to 7 p.m.

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