Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a

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n-born artist who follows in the tradition of French artist

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

in that he employs

readymade A found object (a calque from the French ''objet trouvé''), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have ...

objects.Demos, T.J. "Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing". Philadelphia: Harper Perennial, 2006. Cantor's choice of media is diverse, in that he has employed

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

animation Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, and

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in his work. Cantor's 2005 video work, "Deeparture", which was on view in the contemporary galleries at

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, features a deer and a wolf together in a pristine white box environment. Cantor's work is included in

, the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...

, The Philadelphia Museum of Art,

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The ''Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía'' ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. I ...

Abteiberg Museum The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach. Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967– ...

, Magasin 3, as well as in other collections worldwide. He was awarded with the

Ricard Prize The Ricard Prize (or Prix Ricard S.A.) was founded in 1999 and in 2006 its name changed to Prix Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard. The prize is awarded each year during the Parisian art fair FIAC by a committee of French collectors (friends of the ...

in 2004; in 2011, he won Best Dance Short Film at the Tiburon International Film Festival with ''Tracking Happiness''. In 2011, he received the

Marcel Duchamp Prize The Marcel Duchamp Prize (in French : ''Prix Marcel Duchamp'') is an annual award given to a young artist by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (ADIAF). The winner receives €35,000 personally and up to €30,000 ...

. He was named an Officier in

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant ...

in 2019.

Selected solo exhibitions

* Mircea Cantor: ''Înainte'',

Musée d'arts de Nantes The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes (French: Musée d'Arts de Nantes), along with 14 other provincial museums, was created, by consular decree on 14 Fructidor in year IX (31 August 1801). Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region. ...

, Nantes, 2019 * Mircea Cantor: ''Vânatorul de Imagini (Chasseur d'images)'', Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2019 * Mircea Cantor: ''Adjective to your presence'', Maison Hermès, Tokyo, 2018 * Mircea Cantor: ''RESTLESS: Films and Other Works'',

Museum of the Moving Image (New York City) The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria, Queens, Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The museum originally opened i ...

, 2012 * Mircea Cantor: ''Heilige Blumen'' (''Holy Flowers''),

Kunsthalle Nürnberg The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it wo ...

, 2010 * Mircea Cantor: ''Tracking Happiness'',

Kunsthaus Zurich Kunsthaus ( German meaning "art house") may refer to: * Kunsthaus case, 1980s political scandal in Liechtenstein *Kunsthaus Graz * Kunsthaus Tacheles * KunstHausWien * Kunsthaus Zürich See also * Art gallery * Kunsthalle A kunsthalle () is a f ...

, 2009 * Mircea Cantor: ''The Title Is the Last Thing'', Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006

Notes and references

External links

Mircea Cantor official instagram
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