The Work
Six decades. Three materials. One language hidden in every surface. The complete art of Stephan Lupino — sculptures, masks, paintings, crosses, and the photography archive.
The Crosses
Timber · Iron · Carved. Three materials, one signal. Each register placed in a different part of the world.
The cross appears three times in Lupino’s work — in raw split timber, in welded iron rebar, and in carved darkened wood. They are not religious objects in any conventional sense. They are the mark a man makes when language fails. The three registers together form a single sentence about what remains when every institution has been stripped away from a symbol.
“He did not choose the cross because of faith. He chose it because it is the oldest mark humans make when they need to say this place matters — and no one has ever improved on it.”
Timber Cross
Ed. 7 + 2AP · Archival print
from €280
Cross — Study II
Ed. 10 + 2AP
from €240
Iron Cross — Rebar
Ed. 7 + 2AP
from €240
Carved Crucifix
Unique
POA
The Masks
Each bead placed. Each stone embedded with intention. The face behind the face — not concealment but revelation.
The masks are the most publicly visible element of Lupinizam — worn in festival processions, displayed in galleries, photographed constantly. What they are, beneath the surface, is a language. The dot-bead configurations carry meaning in the Lupinizam system. Every mask is a text. Most readers see only beauty. That, too, is acceptable.
Dot-Bead Mask I
Ed. 10 + 2AP · Also as wall reproduction
from €350
Elder Mask — Stone Series
Unique original
POA
Wooden Mask — Tree Form
Ed. 15 + 2AP
from €280
Figures & Sculpture
Bronze, stone, and resin. From two-centimetre masks to four-metre monuments. The war made these hands.
The sculpture came after the war. Lupino put down the camera and picked up material — timber first, then stone, then bronze. The Desert Figures are the signature works: two bodies rising from cracked earth, their bead-field faces turned toward a particular sky. They appear in every version of the Lupinizam story. In the novel set on the planet Vatraš, their counterparts stand in the Registry’s public gallery, officially decorative, encoding a message no one has yet read.
Desert Figures — Twin
Print Ed. 5 + 1AP · Scale miniature available · Original: enquire
Print from €650
Miniature: €45
Additional Sculpture
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Monumental Bronze
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Power Thrones Series
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Power Throne
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The Paintings
Post-expressionist, borrowing Christian iconography and transmuting it into something older and less institutional.
Lupino’s paintings share the same vocabulary as the sculptures — the same figures, the same symbols, the same layered language. Eve and the Snake. Madonna and the Harbingers. The same cosmology rendered in paint rather than bronze, no less monumental for the smaller scale. In The Burning Thrones, the Eve and the Snake hangs in the Council Hall of the five families — the most powerful room in the Registry — visible to everyone who enters, understood by almost no one.
Madonna and
the Harbingers
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Madonna and the Harbingers
POA
Eve and the Snake
As seen in the Council Hall — The Burning Thrones
Price on application
Additional painting
Image coming soon
Work in progress
The Photography
1970s–1988. The downtown scene before it had a name. Hundreds of negatives, many never printed. First editions in preparation.
Before the war and before the sculpture, Lupino was a photographer. His archive of the New York underground — Area, the Lower East Side galleries, the Basquiat world — is one of the great undiscovered collections of the period. Hundreds of negatives, most never commercially printed. Dagda Media is now preparing the first fully editioned release of this work. Archive membership gives priority access to new releases as they come.
NYC Archive · Icons Series
First editions in preparation
Archive members: priority access
Icons Series
from €250
NYC Archive · Portraits Series
First editions in preparation
Portraits Series
from €350
NYC Archive · The Scene Series
First editions in preparation
The Scene
from €180
Archive Members
Priority access to every new photography release.
New editions added as the archive is catalogued. Members are first to purchase.
