Paul Cupido Photography
Dutch, b. 1972
The photographic work of Paul Cupido (b. 1972, Terschelling, the Netherlands) revolves around the principle of mu: a philosophical concept that could be translated as ‘does not have’, but is equally open to countless interpretations. Mu can be considered a void, albeit one that holds potential.
Cupido’s ongoing photographic and cinematic experiment ‘Searching for Mu’ is at once a personal and universal odyssey of our fleeting existence in relation to the profound emotional experiences of love, time, and death. Instead of presuming to be documents, his photographs point to transcendent reflections of the soul and of the intermingling of the microscopic and macroscopic.
Artist Statement:
I aim to engage with the world with wide-open senses. My work is about the magic moments of life as well as its inconveniences. I want to take pictures, while forgetting about the process of photography, until I’m saturated with an existential sense of life. Every step I take begins with the notion of ‘mono no aware’: the transience of everything, the gentle melancholy of things, being sensitive to ephemera.to
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Artist: Paul Cupido
Mt Fuji
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Mt Fuji, 2023
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
Image/Paper: 22" x 16-1/2", Framed: 27-3/4" x 21-3/4"
Editi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Premiers Symptômes
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
Image: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4", Frame: 15 1/8" x 12 1/4"
Edition 2 of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Hommage Celeste
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival Pigments on Kozo Paper
29-1/2" x 19-1/2",frame 32-3/4" x 23"
Edition 1 of 5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Azul, 2023
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on handmade Kozo paper
Image/Sheet: 7-3/4" x 10-1/4", Frame: 11-1/4 x 13-3/4"
AP 2
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$5,500
An Island in the Moon I
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
Image: 23 5/8" x 16 3/4", Frame: 28 1/4" x 20 1/4"
AP 3
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sakura Bloom
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Sakura Bloom, 2024
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on artist label
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
Image/Paper: 11-3/4" x 7-3/4", Framed: 16-1/4" x 12"
Edition 2 of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hanabi
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
8 7/8 x 11 3/4 "
22.5 x 30 cm
Edition 2 of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
$3,000
Reprise
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Reprise, 2023
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on handmade Kozo paper
Image: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4", Frame: 15 1/8" x 12 1/4"
Edition 3 of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Homage to Shoji, No. 9
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival Pigments on unwashed Kozo Paper
23 x 28 cm
Edition 1 of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Haru, 2023
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigment print on Kozo Paper
Image/Paper: 12" x 8"
AP 1
Category
2010s Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$4,750
Hommage to Kato I
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on tea infused Japanese Kozo paper
Image: 17 1/2" x 11 3/4", Frame: 21" x 15"
Edition 2 of 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cap de Coeur
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in ink on photographers label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
Image/Sheet: 12" x 9"
Edition of 10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Embrace (Chloé)
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigments on Kozo paper
10 1/2 x 7 7/8 "
26.67 x 20 cm
AP2
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paul Cupido Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pink Tree, 2023
By Paul Cupido
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated in ink on photographer's label.
Archival pigment print on Kozo paper
Image/Sheet: 12" x 18"
Edition 4 of 7
Category
2010s Paul Cupido Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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