Today, 29 April 2008 in Tel Aviv opened a branch in Paris galleries «Minotaur»

Today, 29 April 2008 in Tel Aviv opened a branch in Paris galleries «Minotaur». By the opening of the gallery is dedicated Russian-English artist Yuri Kuper. The artist will arrive in Israel at the opening of his personal exhibition.

gallery itself, the owners are two young art dealer, Benoit Shapiro and Yaron Ławica, is in the quarter Saint-Germain in Paris. A few years ago the gallery arranged in the Museum of Private Collections in Moscow of Russian artists abroad - Sergei and Andrei Sharshunov Lanskoe, but at the last Moscow International Salon of Fine Arts in Manezh (May 2007) Benoit Shapiro showed works from his Paris exhibition galleries «second avant-garde: 1950-1970 »and« Moscow - Paris: 1960-2000 », which were presented to the work of Russian nonconformist second half of the twentieth century. Specialized art gallery is a twentieth-century Eastern Europe, primarily by artists from Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Poland, emigrated to the European cultural centers such as Paris or Berlin (in particular, Marc Chagall, Mane-Katz, Hugo Shayber, Michael Kikoin and other).

However, the gallery has works by modern artists, as evidenced by the opening exhibition. 68-year-old Yuri Cooper - a native of Moscow, English artist who currently lives alternately in New York, France and London. Cooper - one of those rare people who manage, not among themselves to either of the currents of contemporary art, to exhibit the work everywhere: from the United States and Europe to China. His works were exhibited in famous museums - the Tretyakov Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum and the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, as well as part of the largest private collections around the world. Several years ago, the artist-man show was held in the Pushkin Museum to them. Pushkin Museum.

A part of Cooper's songs are the objects of everyday life, but the brush, brush and hammer turns in his remarkable phenomenon, the signs of emotional memory. Yuri Cooper acknowledges, in its sympathy for the household goods and gives a new status. Much of the works of this artist is reduced to simplicity. In Tel Aviv «Minotaur» on display, for example, foam, table and tube.

Cooper began to paint in 15 years. In later life he was involved in fashion design and theatrical scenery. Insatiable interest in theater and art scene-led him to work on stage productions in Europe and America. Cooper created a collection of jewelry, costumes and scenery of Altman's films, decorated interiors, books, doing installations, and exhibitions of sculptural works beautifully-volumetric «Small scenes in the interior». Play «Twelve paintings from the artist's life» - the first and only production, designed in the Moscow art theater Cooper named Chekhov - was also the world premiere of the play. This was followed by stage performances «Boris Godunov» (director A. Sokurov) at the Bolshoi Theater.

In 1975, New York, Cooper's book «Moscow still life».

Cooper emigrated to Israel in 1972, full of hopes, but determined that it is not recognized as an artist, a year later left the country .

In the preface to the exhibition catalog, Yuri Kuper cites the words of former Israeli Attaché for Cultural Affairs, Arie Aroha, also an artist: « be patient and wait until our country is not povzrosleet. Only then will it be able to understand and appreciate the artist. Now that we have no time ».

«Now, coming back, I hope to see Israel povzroslevshim», - these words Cooper finishes preface . After 30 years of the artist «returned» to the country of his personal exhibition.

The exhibition will be held from 30 April to 15 June 2008 Gallery «Minotaur - Paris - Tel Aviv» Tel Aviv.

Sources: Press Release PR-agency «Ludwig-Shapira», www.minotaure -telaviv.com , www.mxat.ru