ANA MARIA MICU
  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2023 - >
        • engaging activities
        • an existing configuration
        • To Heal You
        • yet so poorly
        • the demolition
        • find a way to honor
        • endless growth
        • with impregnation
      • 2021 - 2022 >
        • daylight apertures
        • night after night
        • indoor and outdoor environment
        • for campers to share
        • lifetime educational
        • restraint and seclusion
        • blurry and like a
        • expansion joints
        • services due to
        • indoors during
        • Left Hand
        • Distant View
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Animations
    • Serigraphy
  • Projects
    • Shows >
      • The TWIST. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire
      • Ecologies of Care and Tending
      • Threat to The Eye
      • This Is Not an Artspace
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Studies for a Burning Silence
      • Unlimited Visuality
      • The Aftermath of a Losing Battle
      • The Artist’s Workshop
      • Flowing Light
      • The Poetic Realm
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • 12 Years After
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-Portrait
      • ​​The Road Not Taken Ch. 2​
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Installing the Image
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
      • Understatement
    • Others >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Abstract Circle
      • Changing Background
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publications
    • Ana Maria Micu. Left Hand To Distant View
    • Ana Maria Micu
  • Art Fairs
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2019
    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
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​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
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Mind Set Art Center | 7F., No. 180, Sec. 1, Heping E. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City
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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.
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  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2023 - >
        • engaging activities
        • an existing configuration
        • To Heal You
        • yet so poorly
        • the demolition
        • find a way to honor
        • endless growth
        • with impregnation
      • 2021 - 2022 >
        • daylight apertures
        • night after night
        • indoor and outdoor environment
        • for campers to share
        • lifetime educational
        • restraint and seclusion
        • blurry and like a
        • expansion joints
        • services due to
        • indoors during
        • Left Hand
        • Distant View
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Animations
    • Serigraphy
  • Projects
    • Shows >
      • The TWIST. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire
      • Ecologies of Care and Tending
      • Threat to The Eye
      • This Is Not an Artspace
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Studies for a Burning Silence
      • Unlimited Visuality
      • The Aftermath of a Losing Battle
      • The Artist’s Workshop
      • Flowing Light
      • The Poetic Realm
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • 12 Years After
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-Portrait
      • ​​The Road Not Taken Ch. 2​
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Installing the Image
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
      • Understatement
    • Others >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Abstract Circle
      • Changing Background
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publications
    • Ana Maria Micu. Left Hand To Distant View
    • Ana Maria Micu
  • Art Fairs
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2019
    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
  • CV
  • Contact