Miranda Rumina
iránda rúminais a
Slovenian
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Multimedia
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artist and writer.
Life and work
Rumina is a painter, sculptor, writer and multimedia artist. She graduated from the Economics Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and continued with the study of the English and Italian language with literature on the Faculty of Arts. She lives between the town of
Auroville
Auroville (; City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district, mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with some parts in the Union Territory of Pondicherry in India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known as "the Mo ...
and Slovenia with her husband, Dalai Eegol.
She is the leader of numerous projects of Art Society Kerubin, which also has Kerubin Gallery in Izola.
Rumina uses a variety of techniques. Early in her career she developed a technique producing three-dimensional acrylic relief (''Angels'', ''Dance of the Planets''), and she has worked with collage and digital graphics (''Art & Fashion'', ''108 Simple Koans'', ''Modern Angels''). She also creates sculptures in glass (''Odiseja 2001'', ''Requiem'', ''Planets'')
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] and in other materials (bronze, wax), and glass fusion paintings (''Yin and Yang Spring Collection''). In her multimedia projects, Ruminar combines artistic genres and techniques. Examples of such projects include ''Kerubin Launch'' (2002), ''She is ShAKTI'' (2004), ''Manhattan N.Y.'' (2005), ''Stoli/Chairs'' (2006) and ''Palčki/Gnomes'' (2006). Her work ''A Woman Saint and a Madam'' caused some controversy in her native country.
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] In the year 2003 she was chosen to cooperate in Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art and she took part in the Summer Biennale in the town Lulea in Sweden.
Rumina is also a writer. In 2002, she published an autobiographical novel, ''Lydia''.
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] In 2003 she published her third book, ''Kodeks'' (''Codex'' in English), a sequel and a build-up of her autobiography ''Lydia''. The publication of ''Kodeks'' was accompanied by numerous multimedia presentations, an ice installation and a publication of the book in an interactive digital form. In the year 2007 she published a fairy tale ''The Little Mermaid and her Dolphin'' on DVD, in the form of an audio book with supplements. That same year she joined other artists in donated works for auction to support the Nangal Education Project in Thazhanguda, India.
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In July 2009, Rumina won the RTV Slovenia MMC blogger contest.
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Translation: ''MMC-winning blogarka of July is a multimedia artist and psychotherapist, and author of Lydia, Miranda Rumina.''] She is currently working with other artists and the Slovenian government to build a Slovenian Pavilion in the Internationalist Zone in Auroville.
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Her work, ''108 Simple Koans'', is available as an iPhone application.
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Exhibitions and projects
2002
*Planets, Studio Gallery Gasspar, Piran
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2004
*Ice installation Codex, Mercator center Ljubljana
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2007
*Modern Angels, Tibetan Pavilion, Auroville, India
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2009
*Paintings on marble and poetry reading, Auroville, India.
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Site includes audio interview]
2010
*Installation Underwater
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Site includes audio interview]
References
External links
www.mirandarumina.comwww.kerubin.com
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1959 births
Living people
Multimedia artists
Women multimedia artists
20th-century Slovenian sculptors
21st-century Slovenian sculptors
Slovenian painters
Slovenian bloggers
Slovenian women artists
Slovenian women bloggers
20th-century women artists
21st-century women artists