Airbag
In the heart of Romania
Mircea Stanescu's photo series "Airbag""Anyone travelling irony's winding path can escape the irreal, as long as they take an airbag for protection." [ more ]
About the artist
Mircea Stanescu is an artist and photographer in Sibiu, Romania. Since 1990, he has been editor of the Romanian literature and art journal Euphorion.Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions1979, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000
Sibiu/Bucharest, Romania; Erfstadt, Germany; Bistrita, Romania; Horn, Austria; Bucharest, Romania; Krems, Austria; Bucharest, Romania; Chateau de La Napoule, France
Selected group exhibitions
2005 Essays on Memory (Bucharest, Romania)
1999 Interventions (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania)
1999 Periferic 3 (Iasi, Romania)
1999 Esprit de Finesse (+),(-) (Sibiu, Romania)
1998 'Umgekehrte Erinnerung' (Cluj, Romania)
1997 Civitas Solis/Civitas Artis (Câlnic/Keling, Romania)
1994 American collage - notes from east to west (Bucharest, Romania)
1994 Füge (Tg. Mures/Bucharest, Romania)
1994 Picasso against Picasso (Bucharest, Romania)
Selected international exhibitions
Eurozine Gallery
Current exhibition:
Leonhard Lapin
Suprealism
[Summer 2007]
Previous exhibitions:
Cecilia Parsberg
The wall
[Summer 2006]
Josef Schützenhöfer
Art comes from labour
[Spring 2006]
Mircea Stanescu
Airbag
[Autumn 2005-Spring 2006]
2002 'Position: Rumänien'/ Forum A9 Transeuropa/ Quartier 21/ MQ (Vienna, Austria)
2000 Donau Welten/Ein Flussbuch (Regensburg, Germany)
2000 Art & Democracy (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
1999 Tinsel and Paper (Ro. Cultural Center, New York)
1999 Tinsel and Paper, 'at Brewery Project' (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
1999 Novi Sad Biennale (Yugoslavia)
1995 Dividends of the Soul, NÖsterreich Donau Festival (Krems, Austria)
1993 Turner Carroll Gallery - A Decade of Questioning: 1983-1993 (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1993 Turner Carroll Gallery - Contemporary Romanian Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1992 International Festival (Mouscron, Belgium)
1992 10 Young Romanian Painters (Lisbon, Portugal & Erfstadt, Germany)
1992 5th International Drawing Triennial (Wroclaw, Poland)
1991 International Impact Art (Kyoto, Japan)
1991 Group Show (Szombathelyi, Hungary)
1990 Group Show (Rotterdam & Arnhem, Holland Awards)
1990 Prize of Young Art from Eastern Europe (Rotterdam, Holland)
1980 Prize of Young Art (Bucharest, Romania)
1978 1st National Prize for Tapestry (Bucharest, Romania)
Published 2005-10-03
Original in English
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