e x t r a s p a z i o via San Francesco di Sales, 16/a I – 00165 Roma

extraspazio
via San Francesco di Sales, 16/a
I – 00165 Roma
tel/fax +39 06 68210655
[email protected]
http://www.extraspazio.it
lorenzo lupano
My work is a sort of exploration of a wide unknown land, partly underground, oddly
populated and with uncertain borders. The constant practice of filling sketchbooks
of drawings can be considered its first mapping. The next step is the translation of
the collected material utilizing different media (tapestry, sculpture, video,
installation, performance). Amnesia and absent-mindedness boycott the
systematic nature of the cataloguing, revealing at the same time unpredicted and
un-trodden paths.
Subterranean worlds, research into the deep, impulsive reactions, fear, scribbling
and drawing on the phone. Loads of images, undisclosed world, worlds: tread untrodden paths and/or the usual paths, the ones one can’t break away from, every
single thing is like one piece of a mosaic, a map of an unexplored, hostile, bizarre,
strange and amusing land. The transformation from man to animal to vegetable to
mineral and the intermediate hybrid states. Emotional science, sentimental
geology, dream cartography, plate tectonics, ridiculous zoology, symbolic botany.
Cold and hot techniques, translating an impulse into a planned and solid plot.
Sewing, embroidering and knitting as sculpture. Sculpting soft materials, rubber
foam, felt, plaster, plywood. Paintings paintings.