Kuper, Yuri, Set square N°2, 1992
1992
Acrylic and gouache on paper
51 x 68 cm
Signed, dated by the artist lower right
Life is breathed into this square, a very basic object, thanks to the stains of color that have been applied to it through use. A dialogue is created between the subject and the void, where the same hues appear in varying degrees of nuance. The square seems to emerge from the background of the canvas, thanks to the different gradations of grey and the play of shadows.
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.
