Lupinizam
Lupinizam represents an extraordinary life-long journey through the mind and soul of one man – Stephan Lupino. From his early days as a street photographer capturing portraits of the hedonistic eighties New York club glitterati to his latest endeavours, offering street performance with painted models and sculpted pieces, Lupino is never content to rest on his laurels.
“Lupinizam captures the contrast between expression and appreciation of transitory beauty and pleasure, and the darker knowledge of decay and despair. The artist captures this paradox in portrait photography, in paintings and sculptural pieces and through live performance art where models embrace and dance with his works of art.”
Andrew Hemingway, Oxford University
Stephan Lupino discusses Lupinizam
Lupinizam
by Stephan Lupino
Lupinizam by Stephan Lupino represents a lifetime devoted to the artist’s neo-expressionist art, expressed in multiple media.
Lupino’s work is passionate and energetic, driven by both a desire to capture the nuances of humankind’s haphazard transient presence against the background of an indifferent universe and a personal struggle to align his spiritual convictions, often framed via the iconography of conventional religious and cultural motifs.
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Galleries
Photography
Lupino’s early career began as an artist in the eighties in New York clubs where he experimented with candid portraits of the famous and the private. His work captures an uncomfortable dissonance between a garrulous public style and an inner disquiet.
Paintings
Lupino turned to painting after returning to his native home, Croatia, in the nineties during the civil war. He expands on themes explored in his photography against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil and brings to life highly personal and national struggles.
Sculptures
A natural extension of his painting work is in his prodigious ‘sculptured work’ portfolio. Lupino explores themes and motifs – fallen angels, sad dances, empty embraces, despair, and loneliness across multiple executions including bronzes, metal figures, natural stones and wood, and everyday furniture.
Other Work
Lupino works with natural materials – stone, wood, metal, bronze – to craft powerful icons of Lupinizam, which appear in his furniture series, in framed mirrors, in tribal masks, in christian crosses and on multiple aged wood sculptures.
Popular Work
Lupinizam threads its motifs and messages across Lupino’s corpus of work whether in photography, painting or sculpture. Below are some of his most popular pieces.
Rupert Everett
Men Dancing
Desert Abstraction
Julius Caesar Throne
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Lupinizam manifests itself in multiple media. Lupino, the artist, experiments with pieces as paintings, sculptures, in live performance and through everyday pieces of home furniture.
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