NEW YORK.- Yvon Lambert New York is pleased to announce the gallery’s second exhibition of work by Paris-based artist Mircea Cantor. A selection of new works will be installed at the West 21st Street gallery. The exhibition will be on view from September 6 through October 1, 2007. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. The opening reception with the artist will be held at the gallery on Thursday, September 6 from 6 to 8 pm.

The works featured in A Free Smile highlight the disintegration of borders, the successes and failings of globalization, and a world with a sky that is indeed variable to many. Cantor manipulates household items with elegant simplicity: a reworked front page of The New York Times becomes The New Times (2007). Sliced soda cans delineate a rose window in Rosette (2007), and candle smoke spells out Cielo Variable (2007) on a white gallery wall. In his With a Free Smile (YEAR), a terracotta coffin piggy bank rests on the floor of the rear gallery, where the viewer is encouraged to participate by dropping a coin into the slot. The exhibition also features the artist’s first 16mm film, Shadow for a while (2007) in the street side gallery, which consists of a two minute black and white projection of a burning flag.

About Mircea Cantor - Mircea Cantor was born in 1977 in Cluj, Romania. He currently lives and works in Paris and Cluj Napoca, Romania. He is co-editor of Version Magazine (www.versionmagazine.com) and received the Prix Ricard in 2004. He has had solo exhibitions at the Maison des arts Georges Pompidou Centre d'art Contemporain, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; GAMEC (Galeria di Arte Moderna e Contemporamea), Bergamo, Italy; and the Centro Arte Moderna, Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbon.