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Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
7 March – 4 April 2015
Opening reception on Saturday 7 March at 3 pm
Mind Set Art Center
No. 16-1, Sec. 3, Xinsheng S. Rd., Da'an Dist.,
Taipei City 106, Taiwan
info@art-msac.com
T +886 223656008
www.art-msac.com
In the recent years of her practice, Micu has based her paintings on a collection of photographs from her immediate environment. The combination she proposes within this show comprises scenes from her daily life and what she calls “unlikely studio views†– images taken during various artistic endeavors she accommodates at home.
The show is a non-linear visual examination, a multifaceted presentation of self, spanning several years of the artist's life, which leads to an interest in growing plants. The spontaneous manifestation of this interest, disregarding the unsuitable existing conditions of periodic relocation, guided the artist in constructing a speculative yet reassuring scenario about things happening for a reason. By including works featuring plants in an elusive relation with the depicted surroundings, she goes beyond the realm of personal details towards articulating an empathetic connection with the audience. The viewer is encouraged to observe how past events archived as memories seem to reorganize into abridged narrations to make us feel comfortable recalling or sharing them.
The studio views bring forward one of Micu’s artistic guidelines by which art is in a symbiotic association with the routines of life. These images differ from what is usually recognized as a professional studio, because she often works in improvised conditions. Emphasis is put on how space and other available resources are transformed and used to suit various needs, yet practicality is beside the point. She searches instead to maintain a state of visual awareness. In one scene she posed for a camera set at an angle, after she had been delimited with black paint a space to include herself and the unfinished paintings taped on the wall. This work conveys in a literal manner that the ideal painting studio is a larger foster image that must be kept in one’s mind.
Micu is as an artist who refrains from elaborations of solid imaginative narratives, being satisfied with the residual coherence originated from the life references alone. She files images that appear unsolved, inexplicable or unaccomplished and, by painting them, she testifies her trust in their ability to achieve full potential, once parts of the show’s intricate connections formed between the succession of the works, the artist and the viewers.
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past placements in this location, ..... This mission, 2014, mixed technique on canvas, 68 x 84 cm.
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conflict is violence. .... to have a will of iron:, 2011, oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm.
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the ache of longing ... This very little seen, 2010, oil on canvas, 145 x 215 cm.
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Self-portrait, 2015, mixed technique on canvas, 62 x 50 cm.
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can interact. ... to break down, 2014, oil on canvas, 80 x 55 cm.
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window ..... The billions on billions, 2014, oil and acryl on canvas, 49 x 69 cm.
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and you learn that getting ... nobody, 2015, oil on canvas, 67 x 90 cm.
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not only with the ... But there are also, 2015, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm.
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the majority who do not ..... I think, 2015, oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm.
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I have uploaded fresh content on my portfolio website.
We had progress in documenting the large amount of material gathered during the last 2 projects I took part with Cătălin Petrișor - Abstract Circle and How to Mend Unbroken Things.
Practicing the concept of creating a new context for finished paintings, I produced two slideshows as stand alone art forms that are meant for online display.
I also uploaded all my recent paintings and assigned a special page for a sketchbook I began last year.
www.anamariamicu.com
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 Ana Maria Micu (n. 1979) is a visual artist from Segarcea, Dolj in Romania that works with painting and related image transmitting methods.
In 2014 she held an interactive re-enactment of the studio with Installing the Image in Bucharest and took part in a work-in-progress duo show with Cătălin Petrişor as part of the one month residency program at my art Vienna. In 2012 she had the solo show Tender Heart, Keep Still at C-Space Gallery in Beijing. In the same year, together with Cătălin Petrişor, they presented A Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness at Mind Set Art Center in Taipei. In 2010 one of her works was included in Tales of the Unexpected, curated by Maria Rus Bojan and Radek Váňa at Dek 22 in Rotterdam.
Micu graduated 10 years ago from the MFA of the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. |
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