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Homes (2016–)
von • by Ana Popescu, Wien

www.popescuana.com

Ana Popescu is a visual artist and illustrator and mainly

works with drawings and acrylic paints on paper. She was
born in Romania, grew up in France, and moved to Vienna

in 2008, where she studied printed graphics and drawing at

the University of Applied Arts under Professor Jan Svenungs-

son. She graduated with distinction in 2013. Since 2009, she

has participated in various group exhibitions - such as the

annual exhibitions of her university and in museums and

galleries in Tokyo, Shanghai, London, New York, and Vi-

enna. Since 2015, her work has also been shown in solo ex-

hibitions, e.g. at Belvedere 21, Vienna, at the Ravnikar

Gallery Space, Ljubljana, and in Bergen, Norway. Her work

has been published in Architectural Digest, Selected Eu-

rope, and Printed Pages, amongst others. In this issue, we

feature three works of Ana Popescu's Homes cycle, on

pages 008/009, 046/047, and 070/071. Homes is a series of

acrylic paintings on paper that explore a utopian approach

to the concept of "home". Exaggerated colours, distorted

perspectives, and the emptiness of the living spaces and

their surroundings indicate a break with reality. The de-

picted spaces are detached from all subjective memories or

characteristics of a real living environment. The perspec-

tives are components of new – other – rooms. Last but not
least, the Homes series is also a commentary on the villas

and residential buildings of mid-century modernism in Los

Angeles and Palm Springs.