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But the reader may ask - how come Lupino appearedin this company and this gallery. Those with agood memory will recall that in the early 80’s in NewYork, it was Lupino who was Deborah Turbeville’smodel, while those who have been following Lupino’swork on furniture design in the last couple of year willeasily connect this with t Ralph Pucci’s company thatdeals with fashion mannequins, furniture, designedlighting and graphics, with signatures of some of themost influential innovators of today.“A few years ago the curators of Ralph Pucci’s gallerywere interested in exhibiting my chairs and tablesin a joint exhibition. But everything was given a concreteform during my last visit to New York in March,when I showed them all what I do. They expressedspecial interest in the three-meter high bronze sculpture“Fire Woman”, casted in the art foundry Ujevic.Based on it, my works were given even one third ofthe gallery space. In addition to the sculpture, andthree additional ones, on one wall there are twelvecrosses, which symbolize the twelve apostles, thenon the second wall there are nine paintings on canvas,while the third wall is dedicated to my work sketches”,says Lupino that considers this exhibition the beginningof his return to the U.S. in a grand style, whichwill take him to other gallery owners, art galleries andmuseums.Speaking of “return”, we should recall that this61-year-old Varazdin native, born Ivan Lepen, beganhis career as a karateist in the Croatian and Yugoslavnational team who tried out his luck first in Rome,where he worked as a bodyguard. He left for New Yorkin 1977 with the desire to study acting at the StellaAdler Studio, only to become Deborah Turbeville’smodel, at that time the photographer and editor inchief in editorials of the magazines Harper’s Bazaarand Vogue. During those years he started doing photography,and for Annie Flanders, the editor in chief ofthe avant-garde magazine Details, he began recordingthe dissolute life of New York nightclubs and the“Moja djelaimaju unikatnuenergiju, kojusvatko možeprepoznatii koja je udanašnjeapokaliptičnodoba potrebnasvima.”