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The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
  • The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation
The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation

The Abduction of Proserpine, Abstract Variation

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The Abduction of Proserpina Abstract Variation extends Veuve Cooper's fascination with the Baroque and its way of suspending violence in beauty.

Here, Bernini's sculpture is not represented figuratively. It is abstract. The scene becomes color, material, and movement. Red imposes urgency. Black lines scratch the surface. White creates flashes of flesh or light. Yellows disturb the composition, as if the canvas still held the momentum of the abduction.

The work does not show Persephone. It shows what the scene leaves in the body: tension, resistance, vertigo.

 

Artist: Veuve Cooper

Series: Abstract Variation

Painting: Acrylic

Medium: Linen canvas

Canvas dimensions excluding frame: 57cm x 41cm 

Framing: Antique/ornamental gold frame

Piece: Unique

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THE ART OF LIVING VESTIGES

Vestiges does not begin with a garment. Vestiges is a house built around a taste, a way of living, feeling, choosing, and looking at things. "L'Art de vivre" brings together the works and objects that make up the interior world of the house.

Since childhood, I've been drawn to baroque statues. Not just for their beauty, but for what they embody: an elegant violence, a frozen movement, a material that seems to hesitate between stillness and momentum. In my paintings, I don't seek to reproduce them. Figurative art constrains me. Abstraction allows me to translate what they evoke: the surge of a body, the fall of a drapery, the twist of a gesture, without ever stopping them. My canvases are made of material, reliefs, layers, scratches, knife strokes. They must breathe, crackle, catch the light, change with the hour and with the observer.

What is presented here is not separate from Vestiges. It is Vestiges, in another form.

Veuve Cooper.