Mircea Cantor: Bon Moment

RED BRICK ART MUSEUM, CHINA
Dvir Gallery is delighted to share that Mircea Cantor will participate at ‘Bon Moment’, an international group show at Red Brick, China. The exhibition will be on view from April 6th to July 9th.
“Bon Moment,” a cross-cultural exhibition of French and Chinese contemporary art, echoes Festival Croisements, which has reached its 17th edition. During this bon moment, we invited 13 Chinese artists, French artists and artists visiting France, including Mircea Cantor, Cao Fei, Clément Cogitore, Hao Liang, Camille Henrot, Huang Yongping, Jia Aili, Li Nu, Liang Yuanwei, Laure Prouvost, Tao Hui, Tatiana Trouve, and Yan Bing. Their artistic practice approaches topics such as the earth, humans, animals, mythology, the unknown, loneliness, fatigue, death and renewal, creating a transcendent landscape of the world for us.
 
Such questioning also exists in Mircea Cantor’s work. In the film Aquila Non Capit Muscas, the artist delicately arranges a confrontation: an eagle, the King of the Skies, who has nourished so many ancestral legends, and on the other hand is a drone, an icon of technological victory. The inner power and the determination of the hawk lead to imagine a target that isn’t revealed after a few seconds. We wonder: who will be the winner, the eagle or the drone? It is not only esthetical and philosophical but also an obscure critique of the power structure behind technology.
 
More information here 
April 6, 2023
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