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UNDERSTATEMENT
​A project by Ana Maria Micu and Cătălin Petrişor
Curated by Maria Rus Bojan
for C-Space, Beijing
May 30th - September 6th, 2009

With this exhibition Cătălin Petrișor and Ana Maria Micu propose a visual “understatement”: a deliberate restrained artistic discourse that aims to broke the shallow surface of the general perception challenging different modes of comprehending the reality.

Within our contemporary world, visibility and visuality have moved over certain limits and stepped across certain thresholds. It seems that only by deconstructing this continuum of image experience and its conundrums one can regain the lost senses of perception and get back to the initial meanings of things.

Understatement asserts the two artists’ need to underline that media and visual technology do not facilitate the real perception but only make use of the perception deficiencies of the human senses. Also, it points to the fact that the proliferation of images lead rather to a kind of blindness than to a sharper perception of reality.

Understatement is thus more than an artistic experiment. It is in fact a statement and a reaction to the generalized state of hyper-perceptibility. The artists seize that not only that we usually perceive trough the instrumental modes of the portable technology, but we can’t detach ourselves from these modes in order to see differently. Thus, for perceptions of a different quality different settings are needed and only within such a deliberately constructed environment that which is important for the artist can be deciphered in the right way.

Through a perfectly controlled alternation of works, Cătălin Petrișor and Ana Maria Micu manage to create the feeling that we are in front of one great art work. It is not the exhibition that display their works but the works that use the exhibition as a medium.

Using a strategy that combines a sensitive treatment of surface with a manipulated vision, the both artists confront reality with its own rules, transforming it and disseminating it as special effect. 

  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2025
      • 2023 - 2024
      • 2021 - 2022
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2025
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Animations
    • Serigraphy
    • Videos
  • 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 >
      • Eminescu Days
      • 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
    • Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    • 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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