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Ion ZupcuAugust 9, 20192019
2019
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Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edition of 6 + 2 APs)
40 x 52 inches, image size
(Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
From the series, "Etudes on Glass"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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Ion Zupcu writes:
"I am primarily a photographer and a sculptor who has come to realize that my artworks are more about music, drawing, design, and architecture. In spite of this, my art conversation invariably culminates with photographic images.
"Most recently, my longtime obsession with the music of Philip Glass has inspired me to imagine his music in visual form. Determining the appropriate color directions to mirror the sounds of the Etudes, or how to construct visual analogues to his satisfying note strikes/attacks, was as engaging a process as listening to the music itself. Each photograph in Etudes on Glass started with a line drawing; then I considered the relationships between lines, space, forms, light, color, proportions, and the structures of the foreground and background. The resulting paper sculptures were constructed as still lifes in my studio and photographed utilizing a traditional setup–camera, tripod, and natural light.
"The photographs are best viewed while listening to Philip Glass’s Etudes in the background."
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Ion Zupcu first explored his interest in photography by working in a studio in Romania when he was a young man. A few years later, after getting married and having his first child, Zupcu found himself spending long hours caring for his daughter. With a desire to continue pursuing his interest in photography, he began shooting still-life compositions at home with vases and flowers. It was during this time that he also began researching the work of early 20th-century Modernist photographers in depth, which ultimately influenced his aesthetic a great deal.
In 1991 Zupcu moved to New York City to start a new life for himself. His first job was driving a yellow taxi, and it was one his customers, an owner of a black-and-white printing lab, that got him back into the world of photography. Zupcu was hired by the lab owner and quickly learned the tools of traditional darkroom printing. However, it was not until 1993, when he first visited the International Center for Photography in Manhattan and later discovered three Ansel Adams books (The Camera, The Negative, and The Print), that he seriously devoted himself to producing new work.
It took seven long years for Zupcu to be reunited with his wife and daughter when, in 1998, they finally were permitted to enter the United States to live in New York City. Their arrival awakened in the artist a fresh sense of purpose and new-found motivation. Up to that point he had been producing primarily landscape photography. However, he now went back to his initial interest in still-life work, and began spending long hours shooting, studying, and mastering the subject matter. His first fully-realized series of photographs in this genre was in 1999 with a group of images simply titled, Flowers. Several other bodies of work soon followed, including photographs depicting bottles, fabric, and eggs, among other objects. To this day Zupcu insists on printing and toning all of his work himself.
Since his first solo exhibition in 2000, Zupcu’s photographs have become part of numerous private collections throughout the world, and his work is already represented in such prestigious public collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; among others.
- Creator:Ion Zupcu (1960, Romanian)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU93235602482
Ion Zupcu
Ion Zupcu was born in Romania in 1960 and studied photography in Bucharest in the early 1980s. After moving to the United States in 1991, his introduction to the work of classic American photographers like Ansel Adams made him even more passionate about photography, and he devoted whatever time he had available to developing his skills as a photographer and printer. While initially focused on landscape, Zupcu became interested in still-life photography in the late 1990s. He has developed a number of distinct bodies of work featuring, among other things, bottles, fabrics, eggs and folded paper. While beautiful in their presentation of objects and forms, Zupcu is fascinated more by the role that his photographs play for him as markers in time. His images serve as journal entries; they tell him who he was and what he was doing at the time he took the photograph. For him they are essential components in constructing his memories and thereby his sense of identity. Zupcu has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally, and his work has been published in a number of publications, including B&W Magazine and Lens Work. His photographs are now represented in several public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Detroit Institute of Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Dayton Art Institute, and the Ialomita County Museum of Art, Romania.
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By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
August 30, 2019
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
October 3, 2019
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
August 16, 2019
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
May 27, 2019
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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Signed and numbered on label, verso
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(Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
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