Kuper, Yuri, Funel, 2004
2004
Acrylic and salt on photograph
100 x 79 cm
Signed by the artist lower right
This aged, dented funnel belongs to no era. It’s there, represented in the simplicity of its essence and the intensity of its mere presence. The wall, too, is battered, the paint fading, giving way to a dull gray, similar to that of the subject. A subtle balance is created between the different nuances: the black of the shadow responds to the black of the wall, the grey of the floor dialogues with the grey of the funnel.
About the author
Yuri Kuper (born 1940)
Yuri Kuper’s work is profoundly linked to time, the passage of time and the marks it leaves on things. He is a member of the Mémoires group, a group of artists formed in the late 1990s. His objects, and the space in which he places them, are weathered, stained and eroded in shades of rusty ochre or ashen black-gray. In them is concentrated the memory of the past, of their lives. Kuper captures the soul of things with great delicacy and sensitivity.
