from: Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard
to: La Chataigneraie, Flémalle
Here, the inside of a sea spider’s shell is the inspiration for the experience of primal nature. For once not with the accent on colour but on texture , (growth) shapes and structure.This using the ancient material asphalt as a contribution to the primal. The aquaprint technique means that here a ‘print’ is made of a representation manufactured in a layer of tectyl on a water surface; the light shapes are created by pre-painting them on the canvas with white acrylic paint.
Paul Koppers was born in Velden in 1946. Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg. Besides his profession as an artist, he taught visual education at the PABO and taught graphic techniques at the Academy of Visual Arts (ABK) in Maastricht for several years. Together with a colleague, he also developed a highly successful method for teaching
drawing in primary schools, which is used in almost all schools in the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. He also published “Goed Bekeken”, a publication on art and art appreciation.
The work is generally contemplative/philosophical in nature. Main theme is relationship. The relationship between people, between man and culture,between man and nature, between all kinds of ways of thinking and living as well as the influence of time and place on all this. The changes in the above relationships, the impermanence of the earthly, the little effect of teachings from history have been a source of inspiration for years.
