Mircea Cantor wins The Marcel Duchamp Prize
Deeparture (2005)
Congratulations to Artes Mundi 3 nominee Mircea Cantor (Romania, 1977), who was awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize on Saturday at the FIAC art fair in Paris. The artist receives €35,000 and a production budget of €30,000 towards an exhibition at Centre Pompidou in autumn 2012, at the same time as Artes Mundi 5 opens to the public in the new contemporary art galleries of Wales’s National Museum of Art, National Museum Cardiff.
In 2008 during Artes Mundi 3 exhibition Mircea Cantor exhibited Diamond Corn (2005) and the video installation Deeparture (2005).
Established in 2000 by the ADIAF, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is intended to promote the international recognition of artists working in France, in the domain of visual and fine arts.
