ANA MARIA MICU
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The Animated Trail of Destruction
2024
an installation of painting and animation

From the practice of hand-painted animation, I have isolated the observation that when you have to move a character on a painted background, if you don't use some technical artifice, from the simple construction of the silhouette, you destroy the background irreparably. If you need movement across the whole length of the scene, from the moment the character enters the frame and for as long it takes her to get out, she destroys everything in her path. I strive to restore this destruction, when I paint each frame individually, but running the animation in a loop will allow comparison to the original frame and you will see a difference, which is a metaphor for the way we currently interact with the natural environment.

​EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 group show Egologia, (within Romanian Creative Week), curated by Marian Pălie, Turkish Bath, Iași, RO
Picture
​The Animated Trail of Destruction, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 88 x 116 cm.
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​The Animated Trail of Destruction, 2024, hand-painted animation, 9s continuous loop, 23 stills, no audio, 3840 x 2160 px | ​AP from Edition: 3 + 1 AP​
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      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2025
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Animations
    • Serigraphy
  • Projects
    • SOLO EXHIBITIONS >
      • Soul, Air, Animal
      • Woman, Scaffolding
      • This Is Not an Artspace
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
    • DUO EXHIBITIONS >
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Understatement
      • Abstract Circle
    • COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
    • Visiting Artist >
      • Visiting Artist at National Tsing Hua University
    • RESIDENCIES >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
    • OTHERS >
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Changing Background
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publications
    • Touch Nature
    • PULS 20 – New Entries in the MNAC Collection
    • THE TWIST. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire
    • The other face of the world
    • (c​)​ovid's metamorphoses
    • Ana Maria Micu. Left Hand To Distant View
    • Ana Maria Micu
    • 500 Portraits
  • Art Fairs
    • Frieze Seoul 2024
    • Art Taipei 2023
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2020
    • Art Fair Philippines 2019
    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
  • CV
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