On this chair you want to sit down. Seems to better convey the texture of tissue is impossible. And just a minute you know - a real velvet.
"There are so close-seed: Look at this apple, for what it is, and I want to feel the naturalness of this fabric here. So I just bought a new velvet and its glaze, soiled," - says Yuri Kuper, artist.
Yuri Kuper draws on metal, glass, makes collages. Even in academic painting adds a touch - a piece of paper. Love for old things, says the artist, he has inherited - his grandfather was the rag pickers. Its objects are simple, but always alone - paint brush, an apple, tulip, window. And they all seemed covered in cobwebs of time.
"Cooper is a visiting card of his love for the aging of the world, love for the aging of materials, admiring this natural aging" - explains Natalia Kournikova, gallery director, "Our artists.
He not only paints a picture, but also creates a theatrical scenery, costumes and jewelry. Small granary castle, burnt match, stained brush - it's brooches and pendants from Cooper. But - a unique edition of Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri. " Circulation of 150 copies. Illustrations - George Cooper.
"This book is very interesting author's approach to illustration, because it is purely associative, it is absolutely not a narrative, but the subjects of his lithographs inevitably plunge you into the world of books", - said Natalia Kournikova.
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Yuri Kuper - one of the most successful contemporary Russian artists. Its galleries are selling in New York, Paris and London, exhibiting leading Russian and foreign museums. Yuri L. recalls that the artist was quite by accident, "Poverty." Father of violinist died in the war. Growing up in a communal with fellow hooligans. Played football, drank vodka and sang songs.
"My friend in the class, a homegrown poet Alexander Grachev, said: let's go to Stroganovka. And I say: why do you think will take us?" He said: "I'm sure there experienced teachers, they are one touch pen will understand that We have talent. I listened to him, but this did not happen. That is, we simply do not allow for the exams, because we simply did not work ", - says Yuri Kuper.
Cooper began taking private lessons in painting, then enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of Geography, Pedagogical Institute. In 1972 to the year went to Israel and then lived in France and the UK. Now returned to Russia. Here in his new project - creating the interiors of the Voronezh Theater.
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