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Ion Zupcu: Etudes on Glass
Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times
From January 10, 2025 to February 22, 2025
Marian Goodman Gallery is very pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of works by the acclaimed Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov which will be on view from 10 January to 22 February 2025. Known for his groundbreaking photographic practice which combines his interest in cinema, documentary, performance, and writing, Mikhailov has been an inventive, tender but uncompromising witness to the changing fate of his native Ukraine and the consequent experiences of war and displacement. The exhibition explores his rethinking and reworking of the photographic image by including two video works – one from the late '60s-'70s, Yesterday’s Sandwich, and the most recent, Our Time is Our Burden, 2024 – as well as showcasing three iconic photographic series from the ‘80s and ‘90s. One of the most acclaimed photographers of the former USSR, he represented Ukraine at the Venice Bienna
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Visitors to Ion Zupcu’s home and studio in Hopewell Junction are greeted by a series of intimate portraits of Zupcu’s daughter Christina—a series he began when she was four, interrupted by his emigration to the US from Romania in 1991, but which became an annual ritual when she rejoined him here at age 11. The careful attention to detail, immaculate gelatin-silver printing, and very organized, aesthetically sensitive approach to his subject evident in this series are qualities that carry over to all of his fine art work as well, including his most recent series, Works on Paper.
Inspired by the paper models Christina was making a few years ago in her architectural studies, Zupcu began photographing tiny, carefully folded and lit bits of paper—the largest actual subject is no more than one inch across—using his square-format Hasselblad camera. Enlarged to 15-by-15-inch prints, the play of light and shadow in these images takes on an unexpected power, creating abstractions that at
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Ion Zupcu
Ion Zupcu is a fine art photographer who was born in Romania in 1960. He has recently shown photographs of his own minimalist still lifes in various museums and galleries throughout the United States. He initially studied photography in Romania in 1982, but this study was interrupted when he emigrated to the United States. In order to support his family who remained in Romania, he drove a taxi cab in New York City. After a chance meeting while driving this taxi, he was able to resume his practice when offered access to a darkroom.[1]
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[edit]Zupcu's first project to gain attention was a series of still life photographs featuring flowers. His next significant project involved photographing small scenes, often as small as 1 inch in size, using a square format Hasselblad camera. Through his construction of these small scenes utilizing flowers, cut paper and painted cubes, and his use of light manipulation and silver gelatin printing techniques,