A CONSCIOUS CHOICE FOR TEMPORARY BLINDNESS- a duo show by ANA MARIA MICU & Cătălin Petrişor

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A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness A duo-show by ANA MARIA MICU & CĂTĂLIN PETRIȘOR

安娜 ‧ 瑪瑞亞·米庫 卡塔林·皮特里瑟 雙個展

安娜 ‧ 瑪瑞亞·米庫 ANA MARIA MICU

安娜•瑪瑞亞•米庫 Ana Maria Micu

由於歷史遺產的累積以及文化的全球化發展， 現今對於「現實」的表現，已鮮少具有一致性， 而是趨向多層次的解讀方式。一個圖像不再 是單一意象或內涵之載體，但有能力解讀出 其中衍生性意義的觀者卻是少數。由此可知， 當觀者所熟稔的認知系統失效時，對於映入 眼簾的圖像，會本能地從自身的生命情感經 驗中，找尋最合適的解讀方法，就如同數學公 式般，遵循一定的序列和規律解出答案。其中 最重要的，是觀察圖像如何引領我們 ─ 無論 是藝術家自身抑或觀者，皆能由單一圖像推 演至其他圖像的能力。於是我嘗試混合油畫 與素描、創作圖中圖的圖像，搭配我直接加在 畫面上的片段文字，又如同我的作品名稱一 般，表達了我內心建構現實的歷程。

I elaborate on the observation that, due to the accumulation of historical heritages and to the globalization of culture, today's representations of rea lit y have become less consistent and more layered. An image can no longer stand by its own for a specific meaning or, if it does, fewer viewers are able to pinpoint the intended interpretation. When recognition fails, a reliable retreat is the formulation of a visual progression, similar to the mathematical sequence, in which, the most important is to study the reasoning that conducts us, artist and viewers, from one image to another.

I experiment with combinations of paintings and drawings, pictures-in-pictures type of images and mental constructs of reality triggered by fragments of text I add directly on the painting surface or as titles to my works.

《在生死之間…我們瞇著眼》 between life and death that... We blinked our eyes 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm 2012

《淺層流動…有關自然》 surface waves... touching upon Nature 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 130 × 192 cm 2012

《最糟的敵人…某天早晨你醒來發現是這樣》 worst enemy...You awake one morning to find that 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 90 × 130 cm 2012

《終會成真與極致狂熱…抑或片片沙層》

it will become and the greater the kick.... or small pieces of sand 油彩、壓克力、墨水於畫布 oil, ink and acrylic on canvas, 144

× 195 cm.

2011

《一個問題…沒有其他版本》

the question... However no other version 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 130 × 192,5 cm 2011

ANA MARIA MICU 安娜‧瑪瑞亞‧米庫 website: www.anamariamicu.com Born 29.03.1979, Dorohoi, RO Lives and works in Craiova, RO

Education 2002 / 2004 M.A., Visual Arts, University of Art and Design of ClujNapoca, RO

2004 months scholarship, Socrates-Erasmus Program, Athens School of Fine Arts, GR

1997 / 2002 B. A., Fine Arts/ Painting, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Residencies 2012

2008

Myart, ( finissage project: Production as tableau vivant, co-signed with Cătălin Petrişor), Vienna, AU 5. ART:aussee workshop, Altaussee, AU In construcţie - 2, International Centre of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO

Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, CN

Expectations, curator Maria Rus Bojan, temporary space, Dé is Ka & de Verzameling, Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, Amsterdam, NL

2008 Strategies for concealing, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN, (catalogue)

Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO

2007 Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO

BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and in 2008 at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, GB, (catalogue)

2006 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and on tour, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and in 2007 at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, GB, (catalogue)

2005 I love pictura, under construction space, Hotel Continental, ClujNapoca, RO

Solo exhibitions 2012 A Conscious Choice For Temporary Blindness, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Tender heart, keep still!, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN 2007 Ideal Spleen, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO 2006 Bloom, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Art fairs 2011 2010

2006

Exotic East, Jecza Gallery, Art.Fair, Köln, DE C-Space, Art Beijing, CN C-Space and MB Art Agency, Art Rotterdam, NL Anaid Art Gallery, Art.Fair Köln, DE

2004 Airbag, National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, RO

DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO

2003 Urban Emotion, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Skin, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO 2002 Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Works in public collections "Reasons why humans must be" (2008) - Fontys Art Collection, Tilburg, NL

Press articles Mike Brennan, The rise and rise of Romanian art, 2009, modernedition.com Andra Matzal, Tablouri care fac “afirmaţii moderate” la Beijing, Cotidianul,

Collective exhibitions 2011 Colouring the Grey – State of Mind, curator Cosmin Năsui, Artists' House Tel Aviv, ISR, (catalogue)

Post Humanism, curator Cosmin Năsui, V-Art Gallery, Moscow, RU Colouring The Grey. The Second wave of the contemporary Romanian artists, curator Cosmin Năsui, Art Play, Special Projects section of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, RU, (catalogue)

2010 Impermanence, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA

Tales of the unexpected (Off side show Art Rotterdam), curated by Maria Rus Bojan & Radek Váňa, Dek 22, Rotterdam, NL

2009 Fast Forward, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, The Hague, NL

Understatement (together with Cătălin Petrişor), curator Maria Rus

31.05.2009 Andra Matzal, Arta pe ruinele nou-nouţe ale capitalismului, Cotidianul, 22.05.2009 Cosmin Năsui, Picturi crepusculare, Observator Cultural, nr. 485, 2009

策展論述

安娜•瑪瑞亞•米庫（Ana Maria Micu）與卡塔林• 皮特里瑟（Cătălin Petrișor）作為創作夥伴已有十餘 年，他們相互合作卻同時為獨立的創作個體，兩 人藉由繪畫發展一種互補協作的方式來表達對於 現實世界的感知。他們選擇與混亂且分散的羅馬 尼亞藝術圈切割，待在陽光明媚的小鎮克拉約瓦 （Craiova）生活與創作；在那裡，他們擁有的是自我 和創作，以及小心翼翼地捍衛自身的神聖祕境，對 於現實的獨特性以及個人思維、感性、與恆變性的 形成與發展，皆抱持著一種強烈且複雜的迷戀，在 哲學意涵中稱之為神祕客體（mystère des objets）。 本次展覽的概念是一個相對抽象、矛盾的實驗，兩 位藝術家基於個人不同的視覺詮釋，想像自己在暫 時失明的狀態下，被純粹的慾望驅動，記錄在過去 某個特定時間點的記憶，但同時加諸了因距離而模 糊的情感詮釋。在藝術的表現上，想像失明的狀態 近乎威廉•詹姆斯（William James）於 1890 年創造出 來的意識流敘事模式 ，那是一種常見於現代文學 著作的敘事手法，例如維吉妮亞•吳爾芙的《戴 洛維夫人》（Mrs. Dalloway）、詹姆斯•喬伊斯的《尤 利西斯》（Ulysses）最終章與威廉•布洛夫《赤裸午 餐》（Naked Lunch）。 藝術家透過用類似的詮釋手法來強調客體的各種 面向，所有情緒與意識的流轉也因此完全地與周遭 現實環境尖銳又具有暗示性的描述相結合。有了 這個簡單卻深入的方式，客體的神祕性自然地展現 於不明自清的事實裡，愈發使人想要深入探索。 展覽的創新之處在於作品的呈現是從單一創作者 的記憶出發，卻發展出情感並列的狀態連結，以及 兩個個別影像間的物理疊加與拼鏈。正因我們無 法確認哪個畫面是現實所處的當下，所以圖像中探 討的意識充滿了趣味，也觸及所謂的平行現實的 當代概念。 米庫與皮特里瑟藉由一系列的繪畫作品，呈現平行 現實世界與那些闖入他們熟悉環境的陌生怪誕客 體，進而探索內在的自我。短暫失明只是一個選擇

性的問題，而非一個不受控制，令人沮喪的事實。 您只需選擇您想要看到的。 在持續改變的框架下，尤其在 60、70 年代迅速發 展的照相寫實主義（Photorealism）以降，繪畫逐漸向 形式的正確性與極盡保真之責的方向發展，而當 時的藝術家們，則是為了站在反對的立場以及略 具攻擊性的現實中，保有自身的靈魂。為詮釋鮑德 里亞 (Baudrillard) 於 1981 年的著作《擬仿物與擬像》 (Simulacra and Simulation ) 中闡述的論點，這裡表現的 是去模擬一件從未存在過的事件，使之如可見客 體的樣貌般出現於二維的畫布之上。 在米庫與皮特里瑟互補的繪畫作品中，每個客體都 與他們息息相關，借代且象徵了他們生活的部份片 斷，所有的主體與客體在他們兩人建構的世界中是 如此和諧的並存，與時間一同向前邁進。

策展人簡介 Simona Vilau(1983-) 是一位策展人與藝術評論者，目 前工作與生活於布加勒斯特（Bucharest）。過去幾年 中她參與許多的藝術項目，包括策展、研究以及自 己和藝術家合作的項目。同時她也是羅馬尼亞網上 平台 Artbank 的創立者，並且從事關於羅馬尼亞當 代藝術中暴力圖像的博士後研究。

Curatorial Statement

Being sheltered by a solid professional and personal partnership,

which reality is involved, therefore we have to admit that, concerning

that has lasted for over than ten years, Ana Maria Micu and Cătălin

these images, we are talking about the juicy and modern concept of

Petrișor work side-by-side, in a complementary and harmonious way

parallel realities.

of perceiving reality through the means of painting. Voluntarily set aside from the tumultuous, but fragmented Romanian Art scene, in

Micu and Petrișor investigate their inner selves by representing those

the sunny town of Craiova, they have nothing but themselves, their

parallel realities and, sometimes, unfamiliar, awkward objects that just

well-preserved, sacred, personal environment and a neverending,

burst into their calm, peaceful and usual surroundings. Temporary

complex and intense fascination for the uniqueness of reality, for the

blindness is just a matter of choice, and not an uncontrolled,

continuous transformation of a contemplative, emotional estate and

distressful fact. You just choose what you want to see.

for the eternal and fashionable, philosophical meaning of a so-called mystère des objets.

With a perpetual changing framework, painting has been sliding along correctness of form and fidelity of rendition, especially after the

The concept chosen for this present show is an abstract and

proliferation of Photorealism in the end of the 60s and the beginning

contradictory experiment, in which the two individuals, working in

of the 70s, when the soul of the artist, all his emotional profile has

the field of visuality, try to imagine themselves as temporarily blinded,

been suppressed for the sake of an antagonistic and seldom offensive

in a solely attempt to record the blurred memory incorporated in

reality. In order to paraphrase Baudrillard's thesis in Simulacra and

an affective distance between two specific moments in the past. The

Simulation (1981), we are talking about something simulated,

condition of being blind, in this artistic case, is similar to William

which has never really existed, but it appears as a visual object in the

James' stream of consciousness narrative mode (1890), a procedure

bidimensional context of a canvas.

that has been lately found all along Modern literature's masterpieces, such as Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway, James Joyce's final part of

In Micu's and Petrisor's complementary paintings, all these objects

Ulysses, or William Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

signify something personal, because they do harmoniously and relentlessly coexist with their owners and they did that for a while.

All this emotional flow is thoroughly combined with a very sharp and

They created a life of their own.

allusive way of depicting the surrounding reality, by emphasizing in the same way all the parts of all objects. With this simple, but deeply

Curator

engaged solution, the mystery of objects is inherently present in this inconvenient clarity, which makes us think that there should be something more to explore.

Simona Vilau (b. 1983) is a curator and art writer living and working in Bucharest. She is a freelancer involved in many projects along the last decade, from curatorial projects and research, to artistic projects

The novelty in this current exhibition is related to the emotional

of her own. She is the creator of Artbank Romania online platform

juxtaposition and the physical superposition of two separated images,

and holds a Ph.D. since 2012, on a theme related to the violence of the

generated by the memory of the same author. We cannot know

image in Romanian contemporary art.

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A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness A duo-show by ANA MARIA MICU & CĂTĂLIN PETRIȘOR

安娜 ‧ 瑪瑞亞·米庫 卡塔林·皮特里瑟 雙個展

卡塔林·皮特里瑟 CĂTĂLIN PETRIȘOR

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A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness A duo-show by ANA MARIA MICU & CĂTĂLIN PETRIȘOR

安娜 ‧ 瑪瑞亞·米庫 卡塔林·皮特里瑟 雙個展

卡塔林‧皮特里瑟 CĂTĂLIN PETRIȘOR

卡塔林•皮特里瑟 Cătălin Petrişor My paintings are seamless renditions based on compilations

我的繪畫是藉由編輯、分解攝影，所產出接 近零落差的演繹，有些照片是我自己所拍攝 的，有些則是平日的收集與發現。我開始透過 照片的編輯，去感知我利用操作影像結構而 形成的特定「現實」，同時自我實現。我對於 虛幻的空間特別感興趣：在嚴謹的佈局協助 下，人們藉由改變形式，輕易創造出新的空間 維度。對於一直以來質疑著現實圖像與其存 在的理由的我來說，這是非常矛盾的。 觀察是我作品中最重要的支柱，由於當代圖 像讓我們進入一種膽怯的狀態，當人們鎖定 一個圖像時，我們內在的信仰同時遭受箝制， 並且默默地隨著每一寸目光的移動與凝視而 有所改變。由於當今的媒體發達與科技日新 月異，我們所處的世界被圖像所包圍，要辨別 什麼是原模、複製品與擬像物變得極為困難。 經操作後的再現物，對觀者而言可以很輕易 地產生親近感與信任感。但對我來說，繪畫 才是鑑定真實的途徑。 在我眾多創作，有一核心手法是在已完成的 繪畫上描疊上用石墨勾勒出的線條或是圖 騰。這是我自己恣意對創作形式的刻意破壞， 同時表現出這個世界的多樣與多面性，告訴 大家事物存在的多元向度，而非如同眼見一 般地僅是非黑即白的二元面向。

of cut-outs, from found or owned photographs. By the means of photo-editing, I have begun to sense the specific

“reality” I wish to present as directly generated by the manipulation of the image's structure, as a selffulfilling prophecy. I am interested in the illusionist space: the situation in which, with the help of the most discreet interventions, one can alter a form to the point of creating a new dimension. It is paradoxically through representation that I am searching for the status of questioning the reality of the image and the reasons of its existence.

T he s u pp or t of my work i s t he obser v a t ion t h a t contemporary imagery puts us in a state of awe and as we are targeting the image, our inner core is also targeted and slightly changes with our every gaze. Because media and technology became so advanced, because we live in fact within the image world, it became difficult to orientate between model, copy and simulacra. Manual reproduction presents the viewer with an approachable, trustworthy depiction. Painting is a method to authenticate.

One of my practice essentials is to overlap contour drawings made in graphite on finished paintings. It is a form of vandalism directed at my own authority, presenting the multidimensionality of this world and pointing out that there are several possible directions, that things are not unambiguous or dual, but have many faces.

《克服無助》 To overcome helplessness 油彩、石墨、畫布 oil and graphite on canvas 100 × 100 cm 2012

《馬戲團表演》 Circus Act 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 90 × 66 cm. 2012

《就算靠近一點還是太遠》 Even a little closer is still too far 油彩、石墨、畫布 oil and graphite on canvas 90 × 120 cm 2012

《侵入性支架》 The invasive fix 油彩、畫布 oil on canvas 84 × 110 cm 2012

《她的預言》 Herself divine 油彩、石墨、畫布 oil and graphite on canvas 90 × 60 cm 2012

《持續加重》 Constant weight 油彩、石墨、畫布 oil and graphite on canvas 120 × 80 cm 2012

《遊戲間》 Playroom 油彩、石墨、畫布 oil and graphite on canvas 144 × 150 cm 2012

Cătălin Petrişor 卡塔林‧皮特理瑟 website: www.catalinpetrisor.com Born 06.08.1978, Craiova, RO Lives and works in Craiova, RO

Education 2002 / 2004 M.A., Visual Arts, University of Art and Design of ClujNapoca, RO

2004 3 months scholarship, Socrates-Erasmus Program, Athens School of

2011 Colouring the Grey – State of Mind, curator Cosmin Năsui, Artists' House Tel Aviv, ISR, (catalogue)

Residencies 2012 Myart, ( finissage project: Production as tableau vivant, co-signed with Ana Maria Micu), Vienna, AU

5. ART:aussee workshop, Altaussee, AU 2008 In construcţie - 2, International Centre of Contemporary Art,

section of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, RU, (catalogue)

2010 Impermanence, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA

Acquisitions 2009 – a selection, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL

2009 Fast Forward, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Projects, The Hague, NL

Urban Fictions, curator Irina Cios, organized by ICCA at THE ARK Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Understatement (together with Ana Maria Micu), curator Maria Rus

"....Expectations", curator Maria Rus Bojan, temporary space, Dé is Ka

Bucharest, RO

Bojan, C-Space, Beijing, CN

Awards 2004 Prize of DWS presidium (Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub Siebenburgen) at the 3rd edition of the German' Economic Club in Transilvania Art Prize for young artists' promotion in painting, Sibiu, RO

Solo exhibitions 2013 A CONSCIOUS CHOICE FOR TEMPORARY BLINDNESS,

& de Verzameling, Barbara Strozzilaan 314-316, Amsterdam, NL

2008 Strategies for concealing, curator Maria Rus Bojan, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, CN, (catalogue)

2007 2005

Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO

European Blue/ Young Generation, Aula Gallery, Academy of Fine

Mind Set Art Center, Taipei City, Taiwan

2012 Geometry of human nature, curator Maria Rus Bojan, Galerie Dix9,

Colouring The Grey. The Second wave of the contemporary Romanian artists, curator Cosmin Năsui, Art Play, Special Projects

Fine Arts, GR

1997 / 2002 B. A., Fine Arts/ Painting, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, RO

Post Humanism, curator Cosmin Năsui, V-Art Gallery, Moscow, RU

Urban Art, arhitectural projections festival, Bucharest, RO I love pictura, under construction space, Hotel Continental, Cluj-Napoca, RO International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, CZ, (catalogue)

Paris, FR

Arts in Warsaw, PL, (catalogue)

2007 Chroma sky (blue key), Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO 2006 Cult, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, RO

2004 Airbag, National Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, RO

DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of

Art fairs

2003 Urban Emotion, Galeria Gallery, Bucharest, RO

DWS Art Award Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of

Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO

2012 2011

2010

2009 2007 2006

C-Space, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, CN Jecza & Ross Gallery, The-solo-project, Basel, CH Hendershot Gallery, Scope Art Show, New York, USA C-space/C-projects, Art Amsterdam, NL C-space, Art Beijing, CN C-space and MB Art Agency, Art Rotterdam, NL C-space, Art Rotterdam, NL

Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO

Skin, Ataş Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO 2002 Ana Maria Micu & Cătălin Petrişor, Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, RO

Dream Sequence, U.A.P. Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO

Public collections

Anaid Art Gallery, art.fair, Cologne, DE

The Collection of The National Gallery in Prague: the paintings “The Next

Anaid Art Gallery, art.fair, Cologne, DE

Dog” and “Eye for an Eye” made in 2005 De Nederlandsche Bank's Collection: the painting "Memorial House" made in

Collective exhibitions 2012 Renovation & collateral effects, curator Ami Barak, Galerie Dix9, Paris, FR

2009

意識流 安娜•瑪瑞亞•米庫 / 卡塔林•皮特理瑟 雙個展

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