Home > VISUAL ARTS > Ion Zupcu: Painted Cubes

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website

Ion Zupcu: Painted Cubes

Presented by Gallery 339 at Gallery 339

September 16-November 12, 2011

Comment on Facebook

Ion Zupcu’s photographs have always involved a high degree of transformation. His early images remade ordinary objects as elegant sculptural arrangements. Yet increasingly, Zupcu has worked in a mode that is more akin to painting or drawing, where he uses the camera to construct rather than simply transform his subject. One recent body of work created a group of substantive forms from mere slips of paper. The basic materials in his current series, Painted Cubes, are tiny wooden blocks. Through a process of painting and photography, Zupcu uses these simple objects to fashion a set of images that elegantly combine strands of minimalism, optical art, and constructivism. By altering scale, combining images, and creating convincing illusions of depth and distance, Zupcu creates lush explorations of surface, impossible arrangements of objects in space, and dizzying layers of imagery that slyly and joyously celebrate what one can do with a few cubes. Please join us on Friday, September 16 from 6 – 8 pm for an opening reception with the artist.