安卓藝術很榮幸推出全球獨家代理藝術家安娜・瑪瑞亞・米庫（Ana Maria Micu）的最新個展「萬物皆適」，這是米庫繼2019年「牆上的圖像」後，第四次於安卓發表全新的創作。因應台灣近期疫情變化和政府防疫措施，原定5月22日開幕的「萬物皆適」安娜．瑪瑞亞．米庫個展已取消，展覽將延後到六月視疫情狀況再行開展。對展覽感興趣的朋友們，敬請留意安卓藝術網站和臉書粉絲專頁的相關公告。媒材涵蓋油畫、數位素描、絹印與定格動畫。回應近期區塊鏈技術結合數位藝術的討論應用，米庫以定格動畫《高水》為基礎發展的動態影像將上鍊(Mint)成為藝術家首件非同質化貨幣（Non-Fungible Token, NFT）形式的作品，並開放藏家使用加密貨幣進行收藏。
「萬物皆適」中藝術家延續自身高度對週遭環境的警覺與觀察，花費大量時間與勞力紀錄創作的過程，咀嚼思考個人隨周圍即時反饋而發展的關係。除繪畫創作外，米庫也嘗試轉換媒材回應當下疫情造就的多種樣態，她使用數位繪圖的方式創作一系列的素描，並選擇以絹印呈現作品。同時她堅持不懈地收集視覺素材，通過數位手繪、捏製陶土、電腦演算，協同合作Alexandra與Radu Constantinescu兩位藝術家產出定格動畫短片，為觀眾打造一個進入專屬米庫個人世界的入口。長期與世隔絕獨立工作和自處，讓藝術家對人體工學的興趣與實踐最終在她敏感浪漫的視角下，趨向泛靈論的表現與詮釋。假若無機體有著意識與生命，那麼保持它們處在最適狀態乃為必要之舉，譬如我們該為傾斜不穩的東西找到支撐、在兩相摩擦的東西間加上軟墊、懸吊物品的另一頭得有物體固定以維持平衡、輕柔撫熨平整皺衣。看似再平常不過的舉措與場景，在米庫獨特的視覺書寫與實踐拆解下，美感油然而生。
米庫在創作自述中提及：「對於一個藝術實踐者，沒有比描繪對象究竟是否自然舒適更嚴峻的難題。就此層面，作為一個害羞、細膩又好學的藝術家，執行觀察性繪畫時，直面處理此範疇即是最優選擇。」於是我們在《在同儕之前……這人有》的靜物裡看到佈滿生命的溫度與痕跡。名為《在你的沈默與喧囂……結果是》的炭筆素描中，米庫壓縮疊合實際勞動的影像紀錄，細膩真實地一筆一筆細述著她與描繪對象間的親暱互動。同樣的凝視、與周遭環境交織發展的和諧共生關係，在定格動畫《高水》與以絹印輸出的數位素描《內心複雜……為了消減》裡有著更深刻多元的面貌，藝術家身體所依附的實體空間、描繪的物件，互相成就為最和諧舒適的狀態。萬物在米庫遺世獨立的工作室、生活空間、創作過程裡適得其所，有靈般自然而均衡地成長。
關於藝術家
安娜·瑪瑞亞·米庫1979年出生於羅馬尼亞，創作以繪畫為主，藉由互文畫面與自身經驗或是所熟悉之環境，連結處理雙重或是多重圖像，一如她視生活片斷的行為為非線性的圖畫語境一般。2004年取得羅馬尼亞Cluj-Napoca大學藝術研究所的碩士學位，2011年作品入選第四屆莫斯科雙年展展出。目前居住於工作於博托沙尼Mind Set Art Center is pleased to present “Objects Must Be Comfortable”, a new body of works by the Romanian artist Ana Maria Micu. This will be Micu’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. It was originally slated for May 20, has been delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan and government regulations to limit social interactions. Our team at Mind Set Art Center is eyeing a June opening pending improvement of the situation. Please stay updated with our announcements on MSAC’s website and Facebook page. The exhibition combines older paintings with new works and mediums, including digital drawings printed as serigraphy series and an animation in collaboration with Alexandra and Radu Constantinescu. In response to the recent discussion on the application of blockchain technology in the art sector, Micu will launch moving images affiliated with the animation as her first Non-Fungible Token (NFT).
In this exhibition, Micu continues to keep her body alert and open to the natural order of the world. She laboriously documents the creation process and chews over the relationship one develops with the immediate surroundings. In addition to wall-bounded paintings, the artist has experienced different mediums to correlate with the various situations caused by the pandemic. She delivers two digital observational drawings; meanwhile, insisting on documenting the drawing process in a convoluted manner, Micu gathers visual materials for a stop-motion animation and invites two other artists, Alexandra and Radu Constantinescu, to contribute with a concept of their own. The collaborative short film creates an entry point into Micu’s over-individualistic world. In solitude, Micu’s interest in ergonomic practices eventually ends up shifting towards animism. If objects gain conscious life, they would require us to make sure they sit comfortably at all times. What is wobbly, should be somehow supported. Things that scratch each other should be cushioned. What is hanged, should be secured for a larger weight. Fabric creases can be caressed and smoothen. The rules are dictated by the blindness of selfhood and the disentanglements of practicality. Once implemented, they generate an aesthetic.
As Micu wrote in the artist statement: “For the art practitioner, nothing is more stringent than the dilemma of how comfortable your model truly is. In this respect, when engaged with observing life, the shy, considerate, and inquisitive artist refrains from looking at anything else except within.”, in front of peers.” ... This person has. emanates the warmth of vitality and soul despite the depiction of a seemingly random and ordinary scene. In her charcoal drawing, silence and noise in your own ... The result is, the artist compressed and compiled the image documentations of her diligent labor, signifying the intimate interactions between her and her model in an exquisite narrative. The similar gaze and harmony with the surroundings are advanced into divergent interpretations in the animation Acqua Alta and the digital drawings Inner Complexity ... In order to reduce. The environment Micu’s body relentlessly explores intertwines and connects to every object in her life as well as her works, and mutual respect ensures the most comfortable state. Every object inhabits her studio, living room, and creation process as if a living organism breathes and thrives naturally.
About the artist
Ana Maria Micu (b. 1979) is based in Botoșani. She works primarily with painting, connecting two or more images with reference to personal experience and her close environment, in non-linear presentations of scenarios she identifies as minor acts of living. Micu graduated from the MFA of the University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca in Romania in 2004. In 2011, Micu’s works were at the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her 2020 painting, “workers, will still be … to say” has been collected by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania.