Bianca Mann
Bianca Mann (b. 1991) lives and works in Bucharest. She has been interested in her recent projects in the subject of identity, based on two elements – the mask and the spot – the latter being used as both an opportunity to talk about what psychologists call blind spots and as a formal element bearing the similarities with inkblots used in the analysis of the perception of images to determine one’s personality.
In her works Bianca Mann describes the identity of man, that torn apart by the array of roles imposed by society, by the domestic environment, or simply by inner tensions, becomes a scene where different characters perform different acts while wearing the same mask.
In Mann’s works, the artistic statement reads more as an invitation to peruse the multitude of possibilities in understanding human being as a “play in progress”. Each sculpture seems to comprise an ample collection of the same entity’s projections to a fascinating effect.
“If one begins to understand the human being as a theatrical spectacle, then one begins to realize that one mask leads to another mask, not to a genuine and unchanging essence of the self. Each one is many.” (Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida, by Gray Hochhar-Lindgren)
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Bianca Before Bianca Mann
Bianca Mann 2 - 25 October 2019The exhibition follows Bianca Mann's artistic path and the main stages she developed and stood out. On display is a selection of projects and works that the artist has created in recent years together with prestigious art galleries.Read more -
The Big Sleep
Bianca Mann 4 May - 5 June 2019The Big Sleep presents two visual installations - The Maze and The Dreaming Room - both simultaneously running in the Foișor and Ghețărie galleries. The two spaces read symbolically, visually, olfactory and auditory, two fundamental stages of sleep: The Big Sleep and The Dream.Read more -
Eye to I - Full Story
10 - 15 September 2018Summarizing the one work exhibition project that ran through the whole summer of 2018, Mobius has the pleasure to present EYE TO I – FULL STORY, a group show featuring eight Eastern European artists.Read more -
The Blind Spot
Bianca Mann 4 - 30 May 2017The Blind Spot is a journey that begins with a mask - a self-cast of the artist's face in resin or in bronze, with eyes placidly shut towards the world and multiplied infinitely, like closed doors separating the external reality from the internal one. The unsettling result can evoke a...Read more