Ana Lupaș Research
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The oeuvre of Romanian artist Ana Lupaș (b. 1940, Cluj), reread in the context of international and Eastern European art since 1960s, offers a complex mode of experiencing space and temporality via a both emancipatory and laborious visual grammar that is intimately entangled with an anthropological gaze upon timeless human gestures. Her artistic practice, primarily associated with site-specific installations, environments, textile objects, happenings, and actions, has explored the social parameters of artistic practice via community projects as well as restored the magical charge and universality of the artistic act.
The current research by Romanian art historian and curator Alina Şerban takes us on a journey into Ana Lupaș’s world in an attempt to document her artistic thinking by revisiting the artist’s international activities starting with her initial participation at the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennale in 1969. In retracing her active presence in international milieus, her strong connections with the Polish and Hungarian art scenes, and her archiving of materials related to the group exhibitions in which she took part, the aim of this research is to recover tokens of her presence, photographic documents, and other information concerning the networks, events, and regional artistic platforms with which she was affiliated as well as to analyze the processual, focused, and locally based dimension of Lupaș’s work.
https://www.kontakt-collection.org/people/334/ana-lupas
The current research by Romanian art historian and curator Alina Şerban takes us on a journey into Ana Lupaș’s world in an attempt to document her artistic thinking by revisiting the artist’s international activities starting with her initial participation at the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennale in 1969. In retracing her active presence in international milieus, her strong connections with the Polish and Hungarian art scenes, and her archiving of materials related to the group exhibitions in which she took part, the aim of this research is to recover tokens of her presence, photographic documents, and other information concerning the networks, events, and regional artistic platforms with which she was affiliated as well as to analyze the processual, focused, and locally based dimension of Lupaș’s work.
https://www.kontakt-collection.org/people/334/ana-lupas