Yuri Kuper by Jérôme Sneuw
Biography
Scenographer
Born in Moscow in 1940.
In 1972, he emigrated to Israel, at the present time he lives and works in France, the USA and Great Britain.
He works in different fields: sculpture, graphics, painting, scenography, costumes, jewelry collections, book design, installations.
He has had over 50 one-man exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious galleries. Hi work is to be found in the collections of the following, among other, museums: The Pushkin Museum of the Fine Arts (Moscow), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The Staaliche Museen Preusshicher Kulturbesitz (Berlin), The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), The National Fund of Contemporary Art (Paris), Boston Art School, Ministry of Culture (Paris), University of Chicago (USA), National Gallery (Oslo), Congress Library (Washington), The Sainsbury Collection, University of Norwich, Bank of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), The Yoshi-Kiyoharu Fund, the Shirakaba Museum of Art.
He is the author of the book Moscow Still Life (New York, 1975).
In 2007, he made his debut as dramatist: his first play Twelve Pictures from the Life of an Artist was premiered at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.
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