Category: Exhibitions
‘SOLITAIRE’, 243 km and 136.5 hours performance as part of ‘Ivan Lupi’s musings’ solo exhibition at the City Art Depot, Christchurch 2024.
Ivan Lupi’s art is inseparable from the artist’s person, whether that be through performances, autobiographical reference, the fascination with bodily integrity and skin (tattoo, scarification, wounding) as a medium, or through external artworks that integrate with these elements. Lupi is...
Protected: ‘My body from A to B’
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‘A PRIVATE REQUIEM’
From: 'A private requiem' - Long durational performance. The Vivian Gallery (Matakana 2018) Credits: Craig Ray. Worldwide, approximately 40 million children below the age of 15 are subjected to child abuse each year. The piece deals with Lupi's personal experience...
‘X’ one to one durational performance
Black 'X' - Limited edition print. Credits: Craig Ray In 'X' the artist stands behind a custom made polling booth and invites the audience to 'secretly' mark his hands with the 'X' symbol using a tattoo machine. Each member can...
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7 days durational performance in collaboration with Simon King
‘SPOTLIGHT’
I stand in a room in the dark. The audience can enter the room one person at a time and contemplate the palms of my hands softly lit by a spotlight. From: 'Spotlight', performance. Featured in the exhibition 'Experimenting with...
‘An object of study’
“I trust the audience. I don't just consider it merely to be an audience. Once we are in the same room at the same time and we are all focusing on each other, the audience is performing as much as...