06.10.–27.11.2011
Exhibition in the Great Hall

Mircea Cantor
Phishing

Mircea Cantor's 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 on 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. In Salzburg he presented 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. First on show and especially produced for this exhibition was the neon piece Phishing.

Phishing was the first institutional solo exhibition of Mireca Cantor in Austria.

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

*The Washington Post, 28. Oktober 2007, M10