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- Ana Maria Micu is an artist.
SPEAKING ABOUT THE UNKNOWN BY ANA MARIA MICU (solo)
OVERVIEW
Date | ...... closes in todayJan 16, 2019 - Feb 16, 2019 |
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Opening | Jan 16, 2019, Wednesday |
Venue(s) |
Mind Set Art Center (Taibei, China) |
Artist(s) | Ana Maria Micu |
Organizer(s) |
Mind Set Art Center (Taibei, China) |
Related |
Pencil Walker - SHI Jin-Hua |
EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Speaking About the Unknown by Ana Maria MICUMind Set Art Center is pleased to present you two special projects - Pencil Walker: SHI Jin-Hua and Speaking About the Unknown: Residency Project by Ana Maria MICU. The exhibition will open on January 16th at 6pm along with the Gallery Night of Taipei Dangdai.
Almost serving as SHI Jin-Hua’s second name, Pencil Walker, his behavioral art work, is a significant masterpiece created between 1996 and 2015. Shi walked back and forth in front of a 9.76-meter-long and 2.44-meter-tall wooden wall and left trace of 20 years of time with his pencil on it. Each of his creating session took 2 hours and 15 minutes. The process has challenged artist’s physical and mental balance and it has merged with his personal ascetic practice, turning indiscernible karma of life into physical pencil traces to complete the personal ritual of confession and repentance.
Compared with SHI’s combination of personal ascetic practice and art creation, the art works of Romanian artist Ana Maria MICU are inspired by mundane surroundings. Through keen observation toward space, plants and herself, she depicts intimate conversations among the details of life via drawings and paintings. Speaking About the Unknown is a residency project by MICU. An allegoric double self-portrait, staged in a silent dialogue, on a background of composting vegetable materials, is displayed adjacent to a botanical illustration, documenting vegetable debris collected on site, from species of plants unknown to the artist. Since these plants will undoubtedly look familiar to visitors, thus offering them the opportunity to come forward and provide more information on them, the artist’s intent is to encourage an elementary conversation base and from that, hopefully, to ease the way towards the topics of fading, disappearing, change and renewal.
WORKS (2)

Speaking About the Unknown - Drawing 2(Series: works with no series), 2019
painting, 1200x1200mm
ARTIST: Ana Maria Micu

Speaking About the Unknown - Drawing 1(Series: works with no series), 2019
painting, 1200x1200mm
ARTIST: Ana Maria Micu