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Macari Lucia
Lucia Macari and Lilia Dragneva started their artistic duo from a serious involvement into sound-and-image experimentation. This was a result of their interest in the cross-pollination of various sources of the 20th century art (among which avant-garde music, Dada manifestations, electronic technologies), which resulted in a series of installations, video pieces and performances aimed at drawing the public out of its state of normal passivity. The duo also curated a two-year long appropriation project meant to fill in the deficit of information on the 20th century art that Moldova suffers from. The project, called "Kinovari (imitatzia)" (Cinnabar imitation), called on the artists of Moldova to copy works of art from this period and sign the copies with their names. The project however was not limited only to copying but also encouraged experimentation with names, trends and other artistic landmarks. Moving on from appropriation to synthesis, the duo researched the oral traditions of various regions, sections of the population, age groups, areas of occupation, etc. in order to form an artistic opinion about either forgotten or forbidden subjects of contemporary life and thus show the emergence of a new, actual mythology of the country and the mutual influence of psychological energies of various societal groups.




Born
December 10, 1974, Chisinau, Moldova

Home address:
str. Independentei 7 ap.142, Chisinau, Moldova

Tel: + 373 2 21 27 66

E-mail: l_macari@lycos.com



Works

Allegory, installation, 1996


Aphros, action, 1996


Transformation of sound into music and music into sound, video installation, 1997

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Education
1986 - 1993 National Lyceum of Arts "Igor Vieru", Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1993 - 1999 State University of Arts, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1999 - 2002 Visual program coordinator at the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau KSA:K
2003 - Student at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands

Workshops
1997 - Tzara Rerun Novara, video workshop, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Project Management & Fundraising, Center for Contemporary art, Chisinau, Moldova
2000 - Project Management & Fundraising, Kiev, Ukraine

Group exhibitions
1995 - Fashion festival, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1995 - Art-Jam, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1996 - Kilometrul 6, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Cast an eye, photo exhibition, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Messages from Tzara - Reflections in RE, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Reflections, exhibition of textile art, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1997 - Film festival VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1997 - Film festival DaKINO, Bucharest, Romania.
1998 - Performance festival PERIFERIC 2, Iasi, Romania
1998 - Film festival Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary
1998 - Gioconda's smile - from the mythical to techno ritual, performance festival, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
1998 - Senses test station - International forum of art initiatives, Moscow, Russia
1998 - The 25th show of young artists, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 - Body and the East, Museum of modern art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 - WRO'99, Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
1999 - Exhibition of Modern art Transit Napok'99, Cluj, Romania
1999 - After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 - ÊINOVARI (imitazia), Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Unfortunately last Sunday afternoon somebody left the door open…, Sittard, Netherlands
2000 - Identity signs , Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2001 - InvAsia, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2002 - ARDO, music performance (together with D.Riba), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Camps
1996 - Carbonart'96, CSAC, Sadova, Calarasi, Rep. of Moldova
1998 - Carbonart'97, CSAC, Radenii Vechi, Ungheni, Rep. of Moldova
1999 - Carbonart'99, CSAC, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova

Curatorial experience
1998-99 - Literary evenings (together with Sergey Anufriev, ex-Medhermenevtika), Odessa, Ukraine
1999 - Video Marathon Night'99, 3rd edition of videonight, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - KINOVARI (imitazia), Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - CarbonART, 5th edition of creative camp, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2000 - Identity signs, Chisinau, R. of Moldova
2001 - Principle of Super-Lights, VJ music night, Chisinau, R. of Moldova

Seminars/Conference
1999 - Laboratory of Theory and History of Arts, UNESCO department, State University, Chisinau, Rep. of Moldova
2000 - Round table "Problems of perception of Contemporary Art in an international context" as part of the annual Exhibition "COMMUNICATION-EXPERIENCES OF INTERACTION" Almaty, Kazakhstan

Awards
1998 - I Price, The 25th show of young artists, Zagreb, Croatia


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