Kuper, Yuri, Spoon, 1991
1991
Acrylic on metal
32.5 x 12.3 x 13 cm
Numbered and signed by the artist
“… looking at driftwood that the sea had left on the beach… raw, all weathered, bleached and showing wonderful grays between silver and ash. My classmates painted landscapes, portraits and abstract compositions. That didn’t interest me”.
Interview with Yuri Kuper by Dmitri Savitski in Courants d’Art magazine, October 1993.
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.
