Mircea Cantor

The Need for Uncertainty

Mircea Cantor’s installations address the notions of displacement and co-existent worlds. Beyond the suspenseful and highly contrived encounter, Cantor discreetly evokes the uneasy confrontation of ideology, people and culture. Cantor will present a new installation at Arnolfini comprising a number of sculptural components elaborating on the theme of uncertainty. 

 Following his exhibition at Modern Art Oxford earlier this year, this exhibition will be a second stage project with significant new components, including a large-scale wooden gate traditionally seen in Romania, coated in gold leaf. The gate has been imposed with a DNA-strand motif symbolising life, yet paradoxically, certainty and control. An image of a carved wooden form wrapped around the trunk of a tree in a Transylvanian forest, and a flying carpet woven with motifs of angels and aeroplanes will be some of the elements used by Cantor to reflect on worlds within worlds, and on freedom and its limitations. 

'' attractive, contemplative exhibition, filled with space, quiet, and affecting, gentle gestures"  The Guardian

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