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Mircea Cantor

Winner of the Ricard Prize 2004 , awarded during the Prosismic exhibition, curated by Evelyne Jouanno.

Ricard Foundation Prize presentation
in the Centre Pompidou

Exhibition from october 12 to november 24, 2005.

"It is a poetical approach of what short-cuts mean in our lives, visible, or manifesting themselves as a path in the urban space.
They were shot in my Romanian home town, and they illustrate how people intentionally deviate from the so-called "right way".
One part was built by the town planners, and the unpredictable organic part is made by common people. The rest is what we call life"

Mircea Cantor, "SHORT CUTS", 2004, B & W Photography, Triptych, 49 x 73 cm each, edition of 3, courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris Mircea Cantor, "SHORT CUTS", 2004, B & W Photography, Triptych, 49 x 73 cm each, edition of 3, courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris

Biography

Born in 1977 in Oradea, Romania

Lives and works in Paris

The artist is represented by the gallery Yvon Lambert

Works

Travel, moving, expectations and reality, and what they entail: negotiations, misunderstandings, chances, dialogues and (re)inventions, determine the work of the artist, who sees them as necessary starting points, to resistance as well as to creativity, and consequently, to the possibility of expressing their personal freedom and their desire to transform the world.