Kuper, Yuri, Paint pot, 1991-1997
1991-1992
Tapestry
190 x 204 cm
Annotated lower right “A3”
Tissage Atelier Trois
One-of-a-kind copy
Yuri Kuper creates this used paint can, a seemingly vulgar subject, using the highly distinguished artistic process of tapestry. The object undoubtedly comes from his artist’s studio, which is a constant in Kuper’s work. Through the interplay of light and shadow, the sot stands out from the background, even though both have received paint stains and are imbued with the same nuances of color.
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.
