Magda Cârneci

Magda Cârneci is a poet, essayist, and art historian born in Romania. She took a Ph.D. in art history at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1997) and received several international grants in literature and art history (Fulbrigt, Soros, Getty, European Community). Member of the well-known “generation of the ‘80s” in Romanian literature, of which she was one of the theoreticians, after the Revolution of December 1989 she became actively involved in the political and cultural Romanian scene of the 1990s. In the 2000s (decade), after working as a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris, she was the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris (2007 – 2010). At present, she is visiting professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, editor-in-chief of ARTA magazine for visual arts, and president of PEN Club Romania. She is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

She started her literary career in the România literară magazine, under the pen name Magdalena Ghica, which she used until 1989. She published numerous books of poetry, art criticism, and essays in Romanian and other languages, and her poems have been translated into numerous languages.

Works

Volumes of poetry

• O tăcere asurzitoare, Eminescu, 1985
• Haosmos, Cartea Românească, 1992
• Psaume, Autre Temps, Marseille, 1997 (în franceză)
• Poeme/ Poems, Paralela 45, 1989 (în română și engleză, traducerea fiind realizată împreună cu Adam J. Sorkin)
• Poeme politice, Axa, Botoșani, 2000
• Haosmos și alte poeme, antologie, editura Paralela 45, 2000
• Le paradis poétique, Transignum, Paris (carte bibliofilă
• Chaosmos. Gedichten, în traducerea lui Jan Willem Bos, Amsterdam, Go-Bos Press, 2004 (în olandeză)
• Chaosmos. Poems, în traducerea lui Adam J.Sorkin, White Pine Press, Boston, 2006
• Trois saisons poetique, PHI, Luxembourg, 2008
• Peau-ésie, carte bibliografică cu Wanda Mihuleac, Transignum, Paris, 2008
• Poeme spirituale, Tracus Art, București, 2012

Poetry books in foreign languages

• Psaume, Marseille : Editions Autres Temps, 1997
• Poeme / Poems, Pitesti : Paralela 45 (in Romanian and English)
• Le paradis poétique, Paris : Transignum, 2004 (bibliophile book)
• Chaosmos. Gedichten, Jan Willem Bos translator, Amsterdam: Go-Bos Press, 2004
• Chaosmos. Poems, Adam J.Sorkin translator, Boston: White Pine Press, 2006
• Trois saisons poétiques, Luxembourg : éditions PHI, 2008
• Chaosmos, Paris : Editions de Corlevour, 2012/2013

Prose

• FEM, Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 2011

Texts in Collective Books in French

• Paris par écrit, Paris: L’Inventaire/Maison des Ecrivains, 2002
• Le sacré aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2003
• Transdisciplinarité - Un chemin vers la paix, Paris: Éditions FBV pour le CNRS, 2005
• La Mort aujourd’hui, Paris: Editions du Rocher, 2008

Anthologies of poetry

• Nuovi poeti romeni, Marco Cugno and Marin Mincu editors, Florence: Vallecchi Editore, 1986
• Incertitudes. Antologie de la poésie roumaine, Dan Deșliu editor, Quebec: Humanitas Nouvelle Qptique, 1992
• Streiflicht: Eine Auswahl zeitgenossischer Rumänisher Lyrik, Christian W. Schenk editor, Kastellaun: Dionysos Verlag, 1994
• Antologia di poesia mediteranea, Marco Cugno editor, Milano: Marzorati, Emanuele Bettini editore, 1996
• Gefährliche Serpentinem. Rumänischer Lyric der Gegenwart, Dieter Schlesak editor, Berlin: Edition Druckhaus, 1998
• Romania and Western Civilisation, Kurt W. Treptow editor, Iassi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 1998
• Day after Night. Twenty Romanian poets for the Twentieth First Century, Gabriel Stănescu and Adam J. Sorkin editors, Norcross: Criterion Publishers, 1999
• STRONG. 28 de poete din România: 28 poetek rumunskich, Denisa Comănescu editor, Bucharest: Universal Dalsi, 1998
• Poètes roumains contemporains, Irina Petraș editor, Montréal/Bucharest: Les Ecrits des forges/Editura didactică și pedagogică, 2000
• Speaking in Silence. Prose Poets of Contemporary Romania, Adam J.Sorkin and Bogdan Stefanescu editors, Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2001
• Poetry is a Woman (11 Woman Poets from Romania), translation into Greek by Sandra Michalaki and Anna Sotrini, Athens: Alpha publishing house, 2006
• Born in Utopia/ Născut în Utopia. An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry, edited by Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur with Edward Foster, New Jersey: Talisman House Publishers, 2006
• Poésies de langue française. 144 poètes d’aujourd’hui autour du monde. Anthologie établie par Stephane Bataillon, Bruno Doucey et Sylvestre Clancier, Paris: Seghers, 2008
• Romanian Writers on Writing, Norman Manea editor, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas, 2011

Art Critiques

Essays

• Art of the 1980s. Texts on Postmodernism, Bucharest: Litera, 1996 (in Romanian)
• Art of the 1980s in Eastern Europe. Texts on Postmodernism, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 1999 (in English)
• Visual Art in Romania 1945-1989, Bucharest: Meridiane, București, 2000 (in Romanian)
• Art et pouvoir en Roumanie 1945-1989, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007 (in French)

Monographs

• Ion Ţuculescu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1984
• Lucian Grigorescu, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1989

Texts in Collective Volumes

• Von der Bürokratie zur Telekratie, Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1990
• A Latvany és Gondolat, Bucharest: Editura Kriterion, 1991 (in Hungarian)
• Bucharest in the 1920s-1940s: between Avant-Garde and Modernism, Bucharest: Simetria, 1994 (in Romanian and English)
• The Competition goes on. The 80s Generation in Theoretical Texts. An Anthology by Gh. Crăciun, Pitesti: Ed. Vlasie, 1994; second edition, Paralela 45, 1999 (in Romanian)
• The Moment of Truth. An Anthology by Iordan Chimet, Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1996 (in Romanian)
• Experiment in Romanian Arts after 1960, Bucharest: CSAC, 1997 (in Romanian and English)
• Culture of the Time of Transformation, Poznan: WIS Publishers, 1998
• Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe. From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism, edited by Richard Frucht, Northwest Missouri State University, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 2000
• European Contemporary Art. The Art of the Balkan Countries, Thessalonica, State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002
• Perspectives roumaines. Du post-communisme à l’intégration européenne, Catherine Durandin and Magda Carneci editors, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2004
• European art criticism, Stuttgart, Badischer Kunstverein / AVAN network/ Culture 2000, 2005
• Ligeia, Paris, 2005, no. 57-58-59-60, janvier-juin
• Influences françaises dans l’architecture et l’art de la Roumanie des XIXe et XXe siècles, Bucharest : Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2006
• D’une édification l’autre. Socialisme et nation dans l’espace (post-) communiste, Marlène Laruelle and Catherine Servant editors, Paris : PETRA Editions, 2008
• Ligeia, Paris, XXII°année, n° 93-94-95-96, juillet-décembre 2009
• The She-writer’s Sofa, Mihaela Ursa editor, Cluj-Napoca: Limes, 2010
• Romanian Cultural Resolution, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2011
• Intellectuels de l’Est exilés en France, Wojciech Falkowski and Antoine Marès editors, Paris : Institut d’études slaves, 2011
• Zidaru. Das Work von Marian & Victoria Ziadaru, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2011
• SAPTE. Metadecorativul/SIEBEN. Das Metadekorativismus, vol III, Bochum: Klartext, 2012
• Culture and Critique. European Cultural Discourse since 1945, catalogue, Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2012

Translations into Romanian

• Christopher Merrill, Only Nails Remain. Scenes from the Balkan Wars 1992-1997, together with Radu Sava, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 2002
• Catherine Durandin, Bucharest. Remembrances and Walks, together with Horia Mihail Vasilescu, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 2004
• Nicole Brossard, Installations. Paralela 45/ Montreal: Les Ecrits des Forges, 2005
• Pierre Oster, Alchemy of Slowliness/ Alchimie de la lenteur, Paralela 45/Gallimard, 2007

Affiliations

• Founding member and present-day president of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), Bucharest
• Member of AICA International
• Member of PEN International
• Member of European Cultural Parliament (ECP)
• Member of HGCEA (Historians of Central and East European Art), USA
• Member of CIRET (Centre international de recherches et etudes transdisciplinaires), Paris
• Member of Institut de Neuroconnectique, Paris
• Member of Union of Writers in Romania (USR), Bucharest
• Member of Union of Visual Artists in Romania (UAP), Bucharest

References

• Jane Perlez, "Bucharest Rediscovers Houses by a Modernist. Interview with Magda Carneci", New York Review of Books, 1997, January 14.
• Andreas Broeckmann, Inke Arns,"Litter Media Normality in the East", Media, Berlin/Rotterdam, 1997.
• Adrian Guţă, "Riders on the Storm" - Performance Art in Romania between 1986 and 1996", Experiment in Romanian Art since 1960, Bucharest:CSAC, 1997, pp. 94–95.
• Piotr Piotrowski, "Post-War Central Europe: Art, History and Geography", Krasnogruda,Sejne - Stockholm, 1998, no.8, pp.29-32.
• Mircea Cărtărescu, Romanian Postmodernism, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1999, pp. 168–169.
• Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing, edited by Jane Eldridge Miller, London and New York, Routledge, 2001.
• Robert Murray Davis, “Romanian Writing Redivivus”; World Literature Today, spring 2002, pp. 76–83.
• Fiona Sampson, "For the deaf war they're waging: Contemporary Romanian and Bessarabian Poetry", Poetry Review, vol.93, no.3, autumn 2003, pp.51-59.
• Rob Pope, Creativity: History, Theory, Practice. London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 231, 269-270 (text).
• Deborah Schultz, "Methodological Issues: Researching Socialist Realist Romania'\", in Vojtech Lahoda, ed., Local Strategies, International Ambitions. Modern Art and Central Europe1918-1968, Prague: Artefactum, 2006, pp.223-228.
• Robert Murray Davis, The Literature of Post-Communist Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. A Study, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008, Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, pp. 155–156.
• Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, Reaktion Books, London, 2009, p.29.
• Cristian Vasile, Literature and Arts in Communist Romania 1948-1953, Bucharest : Humanitas, 2010.
• Les promesses du passé. Une histoire discontinue de l’art dans l’ex-Europe de l’Est, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2010.

Ewa Izabela Nowak, L‘art face à la politique. L’art polonais dans le contexte socio-politique dans les années 1945-1970 et après 1989, Allemagne, EUE, 2010.

• Nena Dimitrijevic, « Cachés derrière un rideau de fer», Artpress, Paris, n°. 367, mai 2010.
• Ion Bogdan Lefter, A Mirror along a Road. Photograms from the Romanian Postmodernity, Pitesti: Paralela 45, 2010.
• Lucian Boia, Traps of History – Romanian Intellectual Elite between 1930 and 1950, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2011.

External links

• Vezi biobibliografia integrală
• ro:Magda Cârneci
• Personal site: www.magdacarneci.ro