Camelia Mirescu is a multidisciplinary artist based in Italy. Romanian by birth, she lives and works in Rome since 1990. A polyhedral artist, Mirescu’s work manage to shape her artistic sensibility and creative abilities in a refined “modus operandi” immersed in a poetic mood, with skillful research in a variety of expressive modes in painting, photography, installations, ceramics, in her thoughts written between poetry, essay written, narrative and as videomaker in experimental film and video art.
Her art has been featured in numerous prestigious events, including solo and major group exhibitions of national and international importance, at public and private institutions, including:
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy) 2016, 2017, 2019; GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023; Palazzo Valentini, Rome (Italy) 2003; Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (Italy) 2018; Accademia di Romania in Roma, Rome (Italy) 2009; Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy) 2005, 2016; Mediamuseum – Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Pescara (Italy) 2016; Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris (France) 2004; MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Barbican Centre, London (United Kingdom) 2012 (selection).
(Notes by Claudio Crescentini)
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2023
GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL SELECTION of Experimental Film/Video Creative Competition – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – curated by Rrose Present, Teatre Odèon, Girona (Spain)
BOLOGNA IN LETTERE – XI EDITION – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – Contemporary Art – facts – International Exhibition of video art and video poetry, curated by Maria Felix Korporal, online Event with premiere on the Bologna in Lettere YouTube channel, Bologna (Italy)
PASOLINI PITTORE – SCRITTRICI CORSARE, PASOLINIANA – The words of women poets and writers in comparison/clash with the themes of Pasolini’s writing, from love to the environment, from the search for an innovative language to the sense of poetry in the contemporary world, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
2022
EXPLORATORY VISIONS – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, The Screening Room, Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
KINO KLUB SPLIT – PROGRESSIVE CINEMA – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – Project by David King, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split – Spalato (Croazia)
2021
EXPLORATORY VISIONS – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, The Screening Room, Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
CIAO MASCHIO. VOLTO, POTERE E IDENTITÀ DELL’UOMO (HELLO MALE. MAN’S FACE, POWER AND IDENTITY) – MENS “WRITTEN” BY WOMEN, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
BOLOGNA IN LETTERE (BOLOGNA IN LETTERS) – Bologna in Letters 10th BĂBÉL states of alteration – Action 5 – International Review of Poetry, Video Art and Sonopoems, curated by Maria Felix Korporal, Eugenia Dobrova, Enzo Campi, online Event with premiere on the Bologna in Lettere YouTube channel, Bologna (Italy)
ANONYMOUS WAVES – ART PROJECTS BY BOB GEORGESON, White Page Gallery – Weird Shit – International Exhibition Experimental Short Film, curated by Bob Georgeson, Online Event – ANONYMOUS WAVES GALLERY (Australia)
2020
AUTUNNO URBANO ALLA GAM (URBAN AUTUMN AT THE GAM) – As part of the exhibitions of Shepard Fairey and Sten Lex, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth Superintendence of Capitoline Cultural Heritage and by Wunderkammern Gallery, LE CITTÁ DELLE DONNE (THE CITIES OF WOMEN), poetry reading on global cities seen through the poetic word of women poets, to restore the meaning of poetry in our present, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
NORTH BELLARINE FILM FESTIVAL – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, Victoria (Australia)
MASK – ART – Creativity under lockdown – UNESCO & MEADOWS artists against COVID 19, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, promoted by the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotionof the Diversity of Cultural Expression, curated by Lena Kelekian, Francesca Maurizi e Hagop Sulahian, UNESCO Beirut – MEADOWS International (Mediterranean Endeavors advancing Development of Widespread Sustainability) International NGO, Beirut (Libano) 2020
IN ABSENTIA – Digital Pavilion // The Wrong Biennale – “Semiosphera” Artistic Collective, The Wrong the Digital Art Biennial, fourth edition, curated by Francesca Giuliani and Lino Mocerino, Cineporto di Foggia, Foggia (Italy)
ODYSSEY SOLSTICE PROJECT by Camelia Mirescu – SACRA TEMPORIS GESTA (THE SACRED ACTIONS OF TIME), Homage to POPE FRANCIS on the occasion of His visit to Regina Coeli Prison on 29 March 2018, ODYSSEY SOLSTICE – projective installation, SURROUNDING CONFLUENCE – short film, FREE DISTANCES – photographic reportage, SOLSTICE OF ODYSSEY – exhibition of ceramics, majolica realised by the apprentices of the Solstice of Odyssey Regina Coeli Artistic Laboratory by Camelia Mirescu (2017- 2020), Critical texts: Jorge Cappelloni, Claudio Crescentini and Jay McRoy, curated by the Management of “Regina Coeli” Prison, Regina Coeli Penitentiary Police, the Educational Area of Regina Coeli, Vo.Re.Co. Regina Coeli Volunteers, Shakespeare and Company 2, Rome – “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
2019
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2019 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2019 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
SHORT(S) PETTING – FOUND FOOTAGE – (POWERED BY AGITATE 21:C WEB -ORIENTED GROUP) – “All Female Evening”, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split, Spalato (Croatia)
KINOSKOP FESTIVAL – Analog Experimental Film, curated by Nikola Gocić and Marko Milićević, Kvaka 22, Belgrade (Serbia)
MIRADA EFÍMERA: ciclo audiovisual experimental – Programa Fellinia Tierra de Cine, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
KINO KLUB SPLIT – PROJEKCIJSKA SEZONA 2019 – 2020, AGITATE:21C – Avant Garde Group, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split, Spalato (Croatia)
DONNE – CORPO E IMMAGINE TRA SIMBOLO E RIVOLUZIONE – DONNE IN AZIONI E PAROLE (WOMEN – BODY AND IMAGE BETWEEN SYMBOL AND REVOLUTION – WOMEN IN ACTIONS AND WORDS), poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MACROSCOPIO #6 (MACROSCOPE #6) – La presenza femminile nella videoarte (The female presence in video art) – Loredana Antonelli / Agata Chiusano / Matilde De Feo / Camelia Mirescu, curated by Enrico Tomaselli, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
2018
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Parco di Villa Carpegna, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
AN ORDINARY DAY FILM FESTIVAL – Short Experimental and Art Film, curated by Helena Norell and Mats Landström, STUDIO 44 – Stockholm (Sweden)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – XIV EDITION – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and OPEN – International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, connected to the Venice International Film Festival – Amin Gulgee / 7 – performance, poetry reading , curated by Paolo De Grandis and Claudio Crescentini, co-curated by Carlotta Scarpa, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
2017
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – XIII EDITION – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
OUTSIDE/INSIDE/OUT – ARTE A REGINA COELI – I EDIZIONE / MURI SOCCHIUSI (21.10.2016 – 17.04.2017) – promoted and shared by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma and by the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, with the organization of VO.RE.CO – Volunteers Regina Coeli and Shakespeare and Company2, curated by Claudio Crescentini, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
OUTSIDE/INSIDE/OUT – ARTE A REGINA COELI – I EDIZIONE / MURI SOCCHIUSI (21.10.2016 – 17.04.2017) – promoted and shared by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma and by the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, with the organization of VO.RE.CO – Volunteers Regina Coeli and Shakespeare and Company2, curated by Claudio Crescentini, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2016
FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma – ROMA, IL MONDO – XV EDIZIONE – 21 October 2016 – 8 January 2017, curated by Marco Delogu / MURI SOCCHIUSI, curated by Claudio Crescentini – MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
L’ALTROVE SEGNO E IDENTITÀ ( ELSEWHERE SIGN AND IDENTITY) – Exhibition organized as part of the 2016, Flaiano International Awards – installation by Candy Candy, painting by Bertina Lopes, Camelia Mirescu and Daniela Ventrone, collage by Paola Ponzellini, extra – pictorial creations by Laura VdB Facchini and Yayoi Kusama , chromatic – performative creation by Cinzia Fiaschi, photography by Tina Modotti and poetry by Patti Smith, curated by Claudio Crescentini, Mediamuseum – Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Pescara (Italy)
MIRADAS SUSPENDIDAS – Lenguaje Experimental, curated by FelliniA Tierra de Cine Web, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
GREEN EARTH – Olympia Fine Arts International Exhibition and Symposium, Organised by Olympia Fine Arts Association (OFAA), in association with Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra, supported by Department of Art and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of Assam, curated by Utpal Barua, Guwahati (India)
EGOSUPEREGOALTEREGO – Volto e Corpo Contemporaneo dell’Arte (Contemporary Face and Body of Art), curated by Claudio Crescentini, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2015
CONGIUNZIONI (CONJUNCTIONS) – International multimedia and performative festival of poetry, writing, photography and video art in collaboration with the Centro Culturale Candiani and Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, curated by Maria Grazia Galatà, Biblioteca Comunale e Cinema Bersaglieri, Spinea – Venice (Italy)
2014
SATOR MagiaQuadra, Spiritux Artifex Tellus Orbis Responsum – Project by Camelia Mirescu – Painting: Rejine Halimi / Fulvio Leoncini / Camelia Mirescu, curated by Claudio Crescentini, Palazzo Gentili – Sala Anselmi, Viterbo (Italy)
2013
THE VALENCIAN FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS “CIUTAT VELLA OBERTA” 2013 – Travelling Art Old City, International Exhibition – Painting and Photography, curated by Victoria Cano Pérez, Valencia (Spain)
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2012
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cosenza (Italy)
(book available)
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Turin (Italy)
(book available)
CREATIVE CITIES COLLECTION – OLYMPIC FINE ARTS EXHIBITION – Exhibition organized as part of the inauguration of the London Olympics 2012, organized under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee and authorized by the Ministry for Chinese Culture, Barbican Centre, London (Great Britain)
2011
THE NOBLE WOMAN MODEL IN ART – Collective Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Photography, curated by Rosella Cipollone, Museo Palazzo Altieri, Oriolo Romano – VT (Italy)
2007
EURO CALLATIS – Salon of Romanian Artists Everywhere – EuroCallatis Festival 2007, 9th edition, takes place, as every year, between July 9 and 15, in Mangalia. The event is organized by the town hall, produced by Aldaco Film, financed by the Ministry of Culture and Religion and has two new co-producers, Antena 1 and Impact Advertising, curated by SARP Director Monica Zvirjinschi, Mangalia (Romania)
2005
UNIDOS POR EL ARTE, International exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography in collaboration with the Municipality of Rome XVI and the Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Rome, curated by the Faceu Association Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome (Italy)
Solo Exhibitions (selection):
2016
TRASMIGRAZIONI EMOTIVE (EMOTIVE TRANSMIGRATIONS) by Camelia Mirescu, curated by Claudio Crescentini – SIMMETRIA DI UN’APPARENZA (SYMMETRY OF AN APPEARANCE) by Maria Grazia Galatà, curated by Marco Nereo Rotelli – Double Personal Photographic Exhibition, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy)
2009
SFOGLIANDO L’ANIMA – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (BROWSING THE SOUL – PAINTING EXHIBITION) curated by Francesca Ruth Brandes, Accademia di Romania in Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2008
DIALOGARTE Camelia Mirescu – Pittura (Painting) & Massimo Lanzi – Scultura (Sculpture) – Double Solo Exhibition – inaugurated by the Mayor of Viterbo Giulio Marini and the President of the Province of Viterbo Alessandro Mazzoli, curated by Daniela–Carmen Crăsnaru – Accademia di Romania in Roma and Ovidius Association, Palazzo degli Alessandri, Viterbo (Italy)
2005
LE TRASPARENZE DEL GESTO – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (THE TRANSPARENCES OF GESTURE – PAINTING EXHIBITION, curated by Francesca Ruth Brandes, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy)
(book available)
2004
COULEURS INTIMES – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (INTIMATE COLORS – PAINTING EXHIBITION) CURATED by Arianna Antoniutti, Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris (France)
(book available)
2003
LE FORME DEGLI ISTANTI – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (THE FORMS OF THE INSTANTS – PAINTING EXHIBITION) CURATED by Marco Tonelli, Palazzo Valentini – Headquarters of the Province of Rome, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
CAMELIA MIRESCU. FRAGMENTOS ILUMINADOS.
La obra videográfica de Camelia Mirescu se inscribe en el actual panorama audiovisual con un discurso que hace propio la cita del escritor Peter Handke permitiendo a través de sus piezas fílmicas “ocultarse y mostrarse” para ser , “permanecer y pasar” para hacer visible la experiencia que deviene de la captación de la realidad y de la condición humana, en su interacción con la vitalidad que componen los elementos de la naturaleza, lo que constituye la materia que articula en sus múltiples enfoques el sentido a sus trabajos.
Es sin dudas un proceso que propone siempre un pasaje, un recorrido inestable que conduce a un lugar donde abundan los interrogantes. Es allí donde se pueden desentrañar algunos de los tópicos que componen su obra: la contumaz obsesión que la moviliza, y que se percibe en su interés por el tiempo en su materialidad/inmaterialidad, en su reflejo poético de incripción en la naturaleza , fundamentalmente en el agua, líquido que es presencia vital y constitutiva en gran parte de sus trabajos.
Las imágenes de Camelia Mirescu y sus metáforas están construidas de retazos, de microscópicos virajes, de superposiciones y transiciones; aluden tanto a la volatilidad del tiempo como a fragmentarios recuerdos extraidos de la memoria e inscritos en la naturaleza.
La música no es sólo un elemento decorativo o superfluo en sus videos, sino que su colaboración con artistas sonoros es concebida como una profunda comunión con las imágenes, donde ella logra conjugarla con delicado equibrio y sensibilidad para que pueda penetrar en el misterioso territorio que suscita su lente.
En los trabajos que propone Camelia Mirescu se pone en juego un corpus de imágenes que constituyen un universo propio, fluido, disruptivo, dinámico,fluctuante; rico microcosmos donde fluyen las concepciones expresivas, estéticas y discursivas de la autora.
Luminous Choreographies: Camelia Mirescu’s Moving Images
An image – as opposed to a symbol – is indefinite in meaning.
One cannot speak of the indefinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite.
– Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Eliding prosaic linearity’s well-worn pathways, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images more closely align with the poetic/‘vertical’ arrangements of visual ideas championed by the pioneering experimental filmmaker, Maya Deren. The subjects of Mirescu’s lens are concrete, almost elemental: earth, water, air, fire. This base materiality is a vital component of her vision, perhaps no more meaningfully so than when, through artful superimpositions and a luminous choreography of color and motion, her work’s visual rhythms and harmonies render them variably abstract. Indeed, it is in this dance of perceived surfaces and implicit depths that the moment-to-moment intensity of Mirescu’s densely layered impressions resonates most powerfully.
Camelia Mirescu’s moving images are alive in ways that too few works of moving image art are. Her works are brief yet immersive. We move through them as if inhabiting a dream, and at times the vacillating images seem to breathe and undulate, shift and writhe. This is visual alchemy at its most tantalizingly elusive. Through series of seductive, miasmic transpositions, once material subjects are rendered ethereal, leaving behind spectral traces like ghosts or memories (or, perhaps, the ghosts of memories).
Associative rather than indexical, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images facilitate the birthing of new ideas through a form of montage through superimposition that is at once intellectual and emotional. These emergent sensations and dispositions, like the evocative images that give rise to them, linger with the stubborn, melancholic poignancy of half-remembered dreams before, at last, surrendering to new geometries of light and color.
In short, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images constitute a contemplative cinema of reverie and affect. In the most expansive sense of the term, Mirescu’s works are ‘fugitive visions’: lyrical, nomadic, ephemeral. Imbued with a seductive, almost hypnotic alterity, her moving images are, in their very immanence, quintessentially cinematic.
Nostalgia di un ritorno – Trasmigrazioni Emotive, Retrospettiva cinema sperimentale di Camelia Mirescu, 2016
…Nostalgia la cui radice etimologica «nostos» diventa la chiave di volta per approcciarsi alla visione: Nostoi era infatti un poema (ahinoi quasi del tutto perduto) che raccontava il viaggio di ritorno a casa degli eroi della Guerra di Troia e metteva al cento il pertinace desiderio di ricongiungersi con la patria perduta. Sono molte le immagini di viaggio, nel film di Camelia Mirescu, che si apre non a caso con l’arrivo di un treno in una stazione senza nome, memoria cinematografica archetipica. Trasfigurato in un bianconero capace di aprirsi al colore in un breve, suggestivo istante, il cortometraggio assume i contorni indefiniti di un cammino della/nella memoria.
Camelia Mirescu is a multidisciplinary artist based in Italy. Romanian by birth, she lives and works in Rome since 1990. A polyhedral artist, Mirescu’s work manage to shape her artistic sensibility and creative abilities in a refined “modus operandi” immersed in a poetic mood, with skillful research in a variety of expressive modes in painting, photography, installations, ceramics, in her thoughts written between poetry, essay written, narrative and as videomaker in experimental film and video art.
Her art has been featured in numerous prestigious events, including solo and major group exhibitions of national and international importance, at public and private institutions, including:
MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy) 2016, 2017, 2019; GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023; Palazzo Valentini, Rome (Italy) 2003; Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (Italy) 2018; Accademia di Romania in Roma, Rome (Italy) 2009; Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy) 2005, 2016; Mediamuseum – Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Pescara (Italy) 2016; Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris (France) 2004; MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Barbican Centre, London (United Kingdom) 2012 (selection).
(Notes by Claudio Crescentini)
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2023
GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL SELECTION of Experimental Film/Video Creative Competition – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – curated by Rrose Present, Teatre Odèon, Girona (Spain)
BOLOGNA IN LETTERE – XI EDITION – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – Contemporary Art – facts – International Exhibition of video art and video poetry, curated by Maria Felix Korporal, online Event with premiere on the Bologna in Lettere YouTube channel, Bologna (Italy)
PASOLINI PITTORE – SCRITTRICI CORSARE, PASOLINIANA – The words of women poets and writers in comparison/clash with the themes of Pasolini’s writing, from love to the environment, from the search for an innovative language to the sense of poetry in the contemporary world, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
2022
EXPLORATORY VISIONS – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, The Screening Room, Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
KINO KLUB SPLIT – PROGRESSIVE CINEMA – ABODE (tribute to Ito Takashi’s film GRIM, Japan,1985), Project curated by David King, an experimental short film in collaboration with international filmmakers – Project by David King, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split – Spalato (Croazia)
2021
EXPLORATORY VISIONS – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, The Screening Room, Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
CIAO MASCHIO. VOLTO, POTERE E IDENTITÀ DELL’UOMO (HELLO MALE. MAN’S FACE, POWER AND IDENTITY) – MENS “WRITTEN” BY WOMEN, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
BOLOGNA IN LETTERE (BOLOGNA IN LETTERS) – Bologna in Letters 10th BĂBÉL states of alteration – Action 5 – International Review of Poetry, Video Art and Sonopoems, curated by Maria Felix Korporal, Eugenia Dobrova, Enzo Campi, online Event with premiere on the Bologna in Lettere YouTube channel, Bologna (Italy)
ANONYMOUS WAVES – ART PROJECTS BY BOB GEORGESON, White Page Gallery – Weird Shit – International Exhibition Experimental Short Film, curated by Bob Georgeson, Online Event – ANONYMOUS WAVES GALLERY (Australia)
2020
AUTUNNO URBANO ALLA GAM (URBAN AUTUMN AT THE GAM) – As part of the exhibitions of Shepard Fairey and Sten Lex, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth Superintendence of Capitoline Cultural Heritage and by Wunderkammern Gallery, LE CITTÁ DELLE DONNE (THE CITIES OF WOMEN), poetry reading on global cities seen through the poetic word of women poets, to restore the meaning of poetry in our present, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
NORTH BELLARINE FILM FESTIVAL – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW – Animation, Experimental Film , Avant Garde Film, Program curated by David King, Victoria (Australia)
MASK – ART – Creativity under lockdown – UNESCO & MEADOWS artists against COVID 19, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, promoted by the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotionof the Diversity of Cultural Expression, curated by Lena Kelekian, Francesca Maurizi e Hagop Sulahian, UNESCO Beirut – MEADOWS International (Mediterranean Endeavors advancing Development of Widespread Sustainability) International NGO, Beirut (Libano) 2020
IN ABSENTIA – Digital Pavilion // The Wrong Biennale – “Semiosphera” Artistic Collective, The Wrong the Digital Art Biennial, fourth edition, curated by Francesca Giuliani and Lino Mocerino, Cineporto di Foggia, Foggia (Italy)
ODYSSEY SOLSTICE PROJECT by Camelia Mirescu – SACRA TEMPORIS GESTA (THE SACRED ACTIONS OF TIME), Homage to POPE FRANCIS on the occasion of His visit to Regina Coeli Prison on 29 March 2018, ODYSSEY SOLSTICE – projective installation, SURROUNDING CONFLUENCE – short film, FREE DISTANCES – photographic reportage, SOLSTICE OF ODYSSEY – exhibition of ceramics, majolica realised by the apprentices of the Solstice of Odyssey Regina Coeli Artistic Laboratory by Camelia Mirescu (2017- 2020), Critical texts: Jorge Cappelloni, Claudio Crescentini and Jay McRoy, curated by the Management of “Regina Coeli” Prison, Regina Coeli Penitentiary Police, the Educational Area of Regina Coeli, Vo.Re.Co. Regina Coeli Volunteers, Shakespeare and Company 2, Rome – “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
2019
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2019 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2019 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
TELLING ROMA. RACCONTI DALLA CITTÀ INVISIBILE (TELLING ROME. TALES FROM THE INVISIBLE CITY) – Included in “Contemporaneously Rome – Autumn 2019″, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Cultural Growth, created in collaboration with SIAE and organized by Cultural Association Rome Exhibition Center, narrative reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
SHORT(S) PETTING – FOUND FOOTAGE – (POWERED BY AGITATE 21:C WEB -ORIENTED GROUP) – “All Female Evening”, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split, Spalato (Croatia)
KINOSKOP FESTIVAL – Analog Experimental Film, curated by Nikola Gocić and Marko Milićević, Kvaka 22, Belgrade (Serbia)
MIRADA EFÍMERA: ciclo audiovisual experimental – Programa Fellinia Tierra de Cine, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
KINO KLUB SPLIT – PROJEKCIJSKA SEZONA 2019 – 2020, AGITATE:21C – Avant Garde Group, curated by Darko Duilo, Kino Klub Split, Spalato (Croatia)
DONNE – CORPO E IMMAGINE TRA SIMBOLO E RIVOLUZIONE – DONNE IN AZIONI E PAROLE (WOMEN – BODY AND IMAGE BETWEEN SYMBOL AND REVOLUTION – WOMEN IN ACTIONS AND WORDS), poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MACROSCOPIO #6 (MACROSCOPE #6) – La presenza femminile nella videoarte (The female presence in video art) – Loredana Antonelli / Agata Chiusano / Matilde De Feo / Camelia Mirescu, curated by Enrico Tomaselli, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
2018
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2018 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Parco di Villa Carpegna, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
AN ORDINARY DAY FILM FESTIVAL – Short Experimental and Art Film, curated by Helena Norell and Mats Landström, STUDIO 44 – Stockholm (Sweden)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – XIV EDITION – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and OPEN – International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, connected to the Venice International Film Festival – Amin Gulgee / 7 – performance, poetry reading , curated by Paolo De Grandis and Claudio Crescentini, co-curated by Carlotta Scarpa, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome (Italy)
2017
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
BREAK POINT POETRY / CITTÀ POETICA (POETIC CITY) – promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage – SIAE, three–year project included in the Roman Summer 2017 programme, with the collaboration of the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, VO.RE.CO – Regina Coeli Volunteers and Shakespeare and Company 2, poetry reading, curated by Patrizia Chianese, Giardino di Largo Alessandrina Ravizza, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – XIII EDITION – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
OUTSIDE/INSIDE/OUT – ARTE A REGINA COELI – I EDIZIONE / MURI SOCCHIUSI (21.10.2016 – 17.04.2017) – promoted and shared by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma and by the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, with the organization of VO.RE.CO – Volunteers Regina Coeli and Shakespeare and Company2, curated by Claudio Crescentini, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
OUTSIDE/INSIDE/OUT – ARTE A REGINA COELI – I EDIZIONE / MURI SOCCHIUSI (21.10.2016 – 17.04.2017) – promoted and shared by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth – Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma and by the Regina Coeli Prison Directorate, with the organization of VO.RE.CO – Volunteers Regina Coeli and Shakespeare and Company2, curated by Claudio Crescentini, “Regina Coeli” Prison, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2016
FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma – ROMA, IL MONDO – XV EDIZIONE – 21 October 2016 – 8 January 2017, curated by Marco Delogu / MURI SOCCHIUSI, curated by Claudio Crescentini – MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
MARFICI – Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata – TREN DE SOMBRAS, curated by Jorge Cappelloni, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
L’ALTROVE SEGNO E IDENTITÀ ( ELSEWHERE SIGN AND IDENTITY) – Exhibition organized as part of the 2016, Flaiano International Awards – installation by Candy Candy, painting by Bertina Lopes, Camelia Mirescu and Daniela Ventrone, collage by Paola Ponzellini, extra – pictorial creations by Laura VdB Facchini and Yayoi Kusama , chromatic – performative creation by Cinzia Fiaschi, photography by Tina Modotti and poetry by Patti Smith, curated by Claudio Crescentini, Mediamuseum – Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Pescara (Italy)
MIRADAS SUSPENDIDAS – Lenguaje Experimental, curated by FelliniA Tierra de Cine Web, MAR – Museo De Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata – Buenos Aires (Argentina)
GREEN EARTH – Olympia Fine Arts International Exhibition and Symposium, Organised by Olympia Fine Arts Association (OFAA), in association with Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra, supported by Department of Art and Cultural Affairs, Govt. of Assam, curated by Utpal Barua, Guwahati (India)
EGOSUPEREGOALTEREGO – Volto e Corpo Contemporaneo dell’Arte (Contemporary Face and Body of Art), curated by Claudio Crescentini, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2015
CONGIUNZIONI (CONJUNCTIONS) – International multimedia and performative festival of poetry, writing, photography and video art in collaboration with the Centro Culturale Candiani and Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia, curated by Maria Grazia Galatà, Biblioteca Comunale e Cinema Bersaglieri, Spinea – Venice (Italy)
2014
SATOR MagiaQuadra, Spiritux Artifex Tellus Orbis Responsum – Project by Camelia Mirescu – Painting: Rejine Halimi / Fulvio Leoncini / Camelia Mirescu, curated by Claudio Crescentini, Palazzo Gentili – Sala Anselmi, Viterbo (Italy)
2013
THE VALENCIAN FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS “CIUTAT VELLA OBERTA” 2013 – Travelling Art Old City, International Exhibition – Painting and Photography, curated by Victoria Cano Pérez, Valencia (Spain)
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2012
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cosenza (Italy)
(book available)
STEMPERANDO – BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DI OPERE D’ARTE SU CARTA (STEMPERANDO – INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF WORKS OF ART ON PAPER), curated by Giovanna Barbero, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Turin (Italy)
(book available)
CREATIVE CITIES COLLECTION – OLYMPIC FINE ARTS EXHIBITION – Exhibition organized as part of the inauguration of the London Olympics 2012, organized under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee and authorized by the Ministry for Chinese Culture, Barbican Centre, London (Great Britain)
2011
THE NOBLE WOMAN MODEL IN ART – Collective Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Photography, curated by Rosella Cipollone, Museo Palazzo Altieri, Oriolo Romano – VT (Italy)
2007
EURO CALLATIS – Salon of Romanian Artists Everywhere – EuroCallatis Festival 2007, 9th edition, takes place, as every year, between July 9 and 15, in Mangalia. The event is organized by the town hall, produced by Aldaco Film, financed by the Ministry of Culture and Religion and has two new co-producers, Antena 1 and Impact Advertising, curated by SARP Director Monica Zvirjinschi, Mangalia (Romania)
2005
UNIDOS POR EL ARTE, International exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography in collaboration with the Municipality of Rome XVI and the Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Rome, curated by the Faceu Association Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome (Italy)
Solo Exhibitions (selection):
2016
TRASMIGRAZIONI EMOTIVE (EMOTIVE TRANSMIGRATIONS) by Camelia Mirescu, curated by Claudio Crescentini – SIMMETRIA DI UN’APPARENZA (SYMMETRY OF AN APPEARANCE) by Maria Grazia Galatà, curated by Marco Nereo Rotelli – Double Personal Photographic Exhibition, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy)
2009
SFOGLIANDO L’ANIMA – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (BROWSING THE SOUL – PAINTING EXHIBITION) curated by Francesca Ruth Brandes, Accademia di Romania in Roma, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
2008
DIALOGARTE Camelia Mirescu – Pittura (Painting) & Massimo Lanzi – Scultura (Sculpture) – Double Solo Exhibition – inaugurated by the Mayor of Viterbo Giulio Marini and the President of the Province of Viterbo Alessandro Mazzoli, curated by Daniela–Carmen Crăsnaru – Accademia di Romania in Roma and Ovidius Association, Palazzo degli Alessandri, Viterbo (Italy)
2005
LE TRASPARENZE DEL GESTO – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (THE TRANSPARENCES OF GESTURE – PAINTING EXHIBITION, curated by Francesca Ruth Brandes, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica, Palazzo Correr (Campo Santa Fosca), Venice (Italy)
(book available)
2004
COULEURS INTIMES – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (INTIMATE COLORS – PAINTING EXHIBITION) CURATED by Arianna Antoniutti, Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris (France)
(book available)
2003
LE FORME DEGLI ISTANTI – MOSTRA DI PITTURA (THE FORMS OF THE INSTANTS – PAINTING EXHIBITION) CURATED by Marco Tonelli, Palazzo Valentini – Headquarters of the Province of Rome, Rome (Italy)
(book available)
CAMELIA MIRESCU. FRAGMENTOS ILUMINADOS.
La obra videográfica de Camelia Mirescu se inscribe en el actual panorama audiovisual con un discurso que hace propio la cita del escritor Peter Handke permitiendo a través de sus piezas fílmicas “ocultarse y mostrarse” para ser , “permanecer y pasar” para hacer visible la experiencia que deviene de la captación de la realidad y de la condición humana, en su interacción con la vitalidad que componen los elementos de la naturaleza, lo que constituye la materia que articula en sus múltiples enfoques el sentido a sus trabajos.
Es sin dudas un proceso que propone siempre un pasaje, un recorrido inestable que conduce a un lugar donde abundan los interrogantes. Es allí donde se pueden desentrañar algunos de los tópicos que componen su obra: la contumaz obsesión que la moviliza, y que se percibe en su interés por el tiempo en su materialidad/inmaterialidad, en su reflejo poético de incripción en la naturaleza , fundamentalmente en el agua, líquido que es presencia vital y constitutiva en gran parte de sus trabajos.
Las imágenes de Camelia Mirescu y sus metáforas están construidas de retazos, de microscópicos virajes, de superposiciones y transiciones; aluden tanto a la volatilidad del tiempo como a fragmentarios recuerdos extraidos de la memoria e inscritos en la naturaleza.
La música no es sólo un elemento decorativo o superfluo en sus videos, sino que su colaboración con artistas sonoros es concebida como una profunda comunión con las imágenes, donde ella logra conjugarla con delicado equibrio y sensibilidad para que pueda penetrar en el misterioso territorio que suscita su lente.
En los trabajos que propone Camelia Mirescu se pone en juego un corpus de imágenes que constituyen un universo propio, fluido, disruptivo, dinámico,fluctuante; rico microcosmos donde fluyen las concepciones expresivas, estéticas y discursivas de la autora.
Luminous Choreographies: Camelia Mirescu’s Moving Images
An image – as opposed to a symbol – is indefinite in meaning.
One cannot speak of the indefinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite.
– Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Eliding prosaic linearity’s well-worn pathways, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images more closely align with the poetic/‘vertical’ arrangements of visual ideas championed by the pioneering experimental filmmaker, Maya Deren. The subjects of Mirescu’s lens are concrete, almost elemental: earth, water, air, fire. This base materiality is a vital component of her vision, perhaps no more meaningfully so than when, through artful superimpositions and a luminous choreography of color and motion, her work’s visual rhythms and harmonies render them variably abstract. Indeed, it is in this dance of perceived surfaces and implicit depths that the moment-to-moment intensity of Mirescu’s densely layered impressions resonates most powerfully.
Camelia Mirescu’s moving images are alive in ways that too few works of moving image art are. Her works are brief yet immersive. We move through them as if inhabiting a dream, and at times the vacillating images seem to breathe and undulate, shift and writhe. This is visual alchemy at its most tantalizingly elusive. Through series of seductive, miasmic transpositions, once material subjects are rendered ethereal, leaving behind spectral traces like ghosts or memories (or, perhaps, the ghosts of memories).
Associative rather than indexical, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images facilitate the birthing of new ideas through a form of montage through superimposition that is at once intellectual and emotional. These emergent sensations and dispositions, like the evocative images that give rise to them, linger with the stubborn, melancholic poignancy of half-remembered dreams before, at last, surrendering to new geometries of light and color.
In short, Camelia Mirescu’s moving images constitute a contemplative cinema of reverie and affect. In the most expansive sense of the term, Mirescu’s works are ‘fugitive visions’: lyrical, nomadic, ephemeral. Imbued with a seductive, almost hypnotic alterity, her moving images are, in their very immanence, quintessentially cinematic.
Nostalgia di un ritorno – Trasmigrazioni Emotive, Retrospettiva cinema sperimentale di Camelia Mirescu, 2016
…Nostalgia la cui radice etimologica «nostos» diventa la chiave di volta per approcciarsi alla visione: Nostoi era infatti un poema (ahinoi quasi del tutto perduto) che raccontava il viaggio di ritorno a casa degli eroi della Guerra di Troia e metteva al cento il pertinace desiderio di ricongiungersi con la patria perduta. Sono molte le immagini di viaggio, nel film di Camelia Mirescu, che si apre non a caso con l’arrivo di un treno in una stazione senza nome, memoria cinematografica archetipica. Trasfigurato in un bianconero capace di aprirsi al colore in un breve, suggestivo istante, il cortometraggio assume i contorni indefiniti di un cammino della/nella memoria.