Special Projects:
Pencil Walker- Edition works on display by Shi Jin-Hua
Speaking About the Unknown by Ana Maria Micu
DATES｜January 16 - February 16, 2019
VENUE｜Mind Set Art Center , Taipei
Opening Reception｜Wednesday, 16 January 2019 from 18:00
Closed on Lunar New Year Holidays | February 2 - 10, 2019
Mind Set Art Center | 7F., No. 180, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday (Closed on Sunday & Monday) 11:00-18:00
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Ana Maria MICU implies that things constantly change shape and migrate from one reality to another. In respect to image formation, she observes that nothing can be more real than the image that one’s holds in his mind, as a model, or as a deciphering code. An image’s home is within another image, in an ever-expanding scenographic contextualization. Speaking About the Unknown is a residency project by MICU and is exhibited as a temporary installation of 3 images, made especially for the gallery space. A large scale wall drawing is the background supporting a framed drawing on paper, while another such work is placed nearby, directly on the naked surface of the gallery wall. Realistic representation based on photographs is combined with a freehand drawn and perceptual-based type of image. Taking further conventions from the tradition of figurative painting as aerial perspective and the common sense notion that everything that is real receives light and drops a shadow, the artist developed an imaginary scene, with a gradual accumulation of charcoal interventions, over a limited time period of two days. With an allegoric double self-portrait suggesting human body decomposition displayed adjacently to a botanical illustration of plants unknown to her, she starts a conversation base on the topics of fading, disappearing, change and renewal, while the viewer is invited to exercise an act of identification and to develop a personal narrative, by experiencing the impact of the enveloping large scale image.
