Kuper, Yuri, Spatula
Original color lithograph on Rives paper
30 x 39 cm
Signed by the artist lower right
Abel Rambert éditeur, Paris
The spatula, undoubtedly an object from the artist’s studio, rests without artifice on a wall. Its beige and grey tones, tending towards green, interact harmoniously with the colors of the background, without the two elements ever merging. Because it’s worn and battered, this hyper-realistic spatula acquires a timeless dimension, seemingly spanning the ages.
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.
