Ciprian Muresan (b. 1977) lives and works in Cluj, Romania. He graduated from the Ion Andreescu Academy of Arts, Cluj, in 2000. From 2002 to 2006 he was co-editor of VERSION magazine, and since 2005 he has been editor of IDEA art+society magazine (www.ideamagazine.ro). In 2013-2014 he was visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Brunswick, Germany, where he taught experimental drawing. Muresan works in a variety of media ranging from drawing, video and object to photography and publication. In his work he explores, recovers and recontextualises historical, social and cultural references to reveal the complexity of everyday life and the conditions for revisiting history. In 2009, he represented Romania at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Muresan's works have been exhibited at SMAK Ghent; the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the Venice Biennale; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Tate Modern, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Geneva; n.b.k.- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; New Museum, New York. In 2017 he was awarded the Drawing Prize of the Guerlain Foundation, Paris.

Ciprian Mureșan has created an entire conceptual approach based on the artistic heritage. The study and copying of images from art history has many motivations, the metamorphosis of images and their role being a constant one. The choice of Bernini's famous sculpture as an object of study is telling in this respect: the moment of metamorphosis from human to vegetal, the transformation of elan into immobility majestically rendered by the sculpture, is carried forward in Mureșan's spiral, by the transposition of volume into the drawing.

(Székely Sebestyén György)