Romanian-born artist Mircea Cantor, who currently lives and works in Paris, France, has won the Marcel-Duchamp prize at the 38th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in France. The Romanian artist received this award for "Fishing Flies", a sculpture made of decorated harpoons attached to planes made of metal containers, nylon wire, fishing nets and bamboo.

Mircea Cantor succeeds Cyprien Gaillard, the winner of this award in 2010. The Romanian artist is invited by the Pompidou Centre to present a solo exhibition for three months in the fall of 2012.

Mircea Cantor was born in 1977 in Oradea, Romania. In 2004 he won the Paul Richard prize in Paris, while in 2008 he was nominated for Artes Mundi Prize in Wales. This year he also won the Best Dance Short Film award at the Tiburon International Film Festival in California.

Read more about him here.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Mirceacantor.ro)