Mara Cucu（RO｜罗马尼亚）

藝術家簡介｜CV of the Artist：

罗马尼亚艺术家，克卢日-纳波卡艺术与设计大学在读博士

PhD in University of Art and Design (UAD), Cluj- Napoca（2025-present）

Mara Cucu是一位罗马尼亚视觉艺术家，探索着一种融合性的创作路径。她将传统绘画技法与设计领域的构成、色彩原理相融合，在作品中既运用色彩、笔触、肌理、厚涂等经典绘画语言，也贯穿着从设计思维中延伸出的几何与结构意识。

她的创作围绕着“物”展开——既探讨其形而上属性，也关注附着其上的情感记忆。她感兴趣于人对物的迷恋如何在时间中悄然消逝，以及那些被日常所遮蔽的意义如何被重新唤醒。

Mara 的艺术理念引用学者 Ellen Dissanayake 所提出的“使其特殊”（making things special）这一概念：人能够从平凡中打捞一物，并赋予其意义。她以此为方法，通过兼具仪式感与结构性的视角，重新审视日常之物。所谓“使其特殊”，就是把一件普通物品、一个简单动作，从寻常中拎出来——你可以重复它、修饰它、凸显它，直到它不再仅仅是“普通”的存在。

Mara Cucu (b. 2000) is a Romanian artist who explores a hybrid approach to visual art. She integrates traditional painting techniques with compositional and chromatic principles derived from design. Her technique involves the use of classical pictorial means—such as color, gesture, impasto, and texture—while combining them with a geometric and structural mindset inspired by design principles.

Her artistic practice investigates the relationship between the metaphysics of the object and the affective memory attached to it. She is interested in how human perception undergoes a gradual erosion of the fascination once projected onto objects.

Drawing from Ellen Dissanayake’s concept of “making things special”—the human capacity to extract an object from banality and invest it with significance—Mara uses her practice to re-examine these objects through a lens that blends artistic ritual with structural precision. To “make something special” means taking an everyday object or a simple gesture and pulling it out of the ordinary. You do this by giving it extra attention—repeating it, adding details, or making it stand out until it’s no longer just “normal” anymore.

關於本次駐留｜About Residency：

本次在重庆大足的驻留创作，将围绕记忆与地点的共生关系展开，试图探讨：随时间流转，人们赋予一片土地的文化意义如何悄然改变。

具体而言，我将通过绘画研究梦境现实主义、叙事孤寂、象征现实主义、日常几何等美学概念，并观察中国当代艺术现场中的形而上学绘画与形式内省倾向。创作也会触及一组鲜明的对照：一边是充满未来感的当代城市景观，另一边是扎根于本土的传统深度——比如代表未来想象的现代都市，与承载寂静永恒的大足石刻及其乡村聚落之间的张力。

这一系列作品，最终希望成为一座桥梁，让不同文化背景下的艺术思考、方法与课题，得以被理解，并在具体的时空语境中展开对话。

Mara Cucu：

The project for Chongqing Dazu residency focuses on the relationship between human memory and the specific places that anchor it, analyzing how the passage of time influences the significance attributed to cultural landscapes.

Specifically, I will research oneiric realism, narrative solitude, symbolic realism, and the geometry of the everyday, as well as metaphysical painting and formal introspection within the Chinese art scene. A part of this research explores the antithesis between the contemporary urban landscape—a vivid, futuristic environment—and the historical depth of local traditions. I will analyze the tension between the modern metropolis, which represents a projection into the future, and the silent permanence of heritage sites, such as the Dazu Rock Carvings and their rural settlements.

This painting series aims to facilitate the understanding and contextualization of transnational artistic ideas, approaches, and problematics.