Mïrka
Lugosi

Born in 1958.
Lives and works in Clamart, France.

Mirka Lugosi is a self-taught artist. She was born in Romania in the northern Carpathians, a few miles from Dracula’s castle. She became known as an underground activist in the 1980s, as she became a key figure in the fetishist scene and a member of the experimental noise group “Le Syndicat”. She contributed to photographer Gilles Berquet’s Maniac magazine, becoming his model, muse and companion.

Her artistic practice extends through photography, video and sound, but it is above all with drawing that Mïrka Lugosi expresses her talent for telling stories. The extreme finesse of her line is at the service of a complex universe where seduction rubs shoulders with disquiet. Using a technique that is as laborious as it is precise, she reconstitutes nature and the beings that populate it with the same attention to detail, without actually copying it.

“With drawing, her principal medium, Mïrka Lugosi seems to illustrate the polysemy of the term “figure”, designating both outward appearance (the human figure) and intellectualized abstraction (the geometric figure). Indeed, his graphic compositions (.../...) are marked by an aesthetic ambivalence that pits reality against fantasy, truth against illusion, matter against concept. Borrowing from the avant-gardes of modernity (a well assimilated Surrealist heritage), fetish culture and the domestic representations of the 1950s, Mïrka Lugosi makes no distinction between collective representations and the personal fantasies she mobilizes. In her environments, all these psychic residues merge. Nature takes on an erotic-chemical allure, the setting transforms into an “eccentric landscape” or “carnivorous”? Can we read among the titles? Where human figures (strong, dominant, upright women) hybridize with animals or plants...”

— Florian Gaité




ARTWORKS

Architecture bruitiste, performance d’Alix Veertop 2024 Gouache on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Aki Holdraf, cantatrice concrète 2024 Gouache and colour pencil on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Contrôle du signal, par Célia Mac Ludell 2024 Gouache and colour pencil on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm
Partition pour bruit blanc, d’Ysel Mahlery 2024 Gouache, graphite and colour pencil on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Les intonarumoris, de Mïrka Lugosi 2024 Gouache and colour pencil on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Arowa Opika, souffleuse d’ondes abstraites 2024 Gouache and colour pencil on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm
Acousmonium, d’Undress Stampton 2023 Gouache on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Sculpture contagieuse, de Tikitik Ama 2023 Gouache, acrylic paint and graphite on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm	Orgasmonium, d’Ellen Homenko 2022 Gouache on paper, framed 42 x 32 cm
Rose de Lima, party 2018 Graphite and gouache on paper 52 x 42 cm	Untitled 2012 Graphite and gouache on paper 52 x 42 cm	Le Buisson Fantôme 2011 Framed graphite and gouache on tracing paper 55 x 37 cm
Untitled 2008 Gouache on graph paper, frame 43 x 33 cm	Untitled 2008 Framed graphite, color pencil and digital print on paper 49 x 38 cm	Untitled 2007 Graphite on paper, frame 42 x 32 cm
EXHIBITIONS

Institut Lugosi 2024	Lutz 2015	Mïrka Lugosi 2006
Lugosi, Berquet, Dagoit 2004
NEWS

Mousse October 2024