molino de damaniu / (la) cabaña: El refugio del artista Yuri Kuper, una obra de arte

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.

Collage avec Yuri Kuper

An artist’s home and studio out of “poor man’s materials”
by kate on February 20, 2012

(http://www.urbankaleidoscope.com)

According to artist Yuri Kuper, his house and studio is made out of and decorated with ‘poor man’s materials’. While the humble building, which dates back to at least the 15th century, may seem spartan by today’s standards, in its day it would have been a rather grand manor house.

Situated in the picturesque Pays d’Auge in Normandy it has been Kuper’s home and studio for the last twenty years. Even though the building is imposing in scale it blends beautifully into its surroundings. When Kuper initially found the building it was almost beyond repair and badly decaying after decades, if not centuries, of neglect. A year of renovation resulted in a building which is light, sleek and modern, but you won’t find any of the hallmark modern pieces of furniture here. Instead, Kuper used salvaged materials and antiques he sourced locally and thereby created a stunning space which is both simple and practical modern place to live and work while at the same paying homage to its historic past.