Kuper, Yuri, Seascape, 2005
2005
Acrylic on canvas
33 x 46 cm
Signed by the artist lower right
This seascape is undoubtedly inspired by the vast beaches of Normandy, a region in which Yuri Kuper has often spent time. Time seems suspended, and it’s hard to decide whether it’s dawn or dusk. The blue of the sky becomes the blue of the sea, so much so that you can’t make out the exact line of the horizon. The white foam lends relief and depth to the work.
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.
