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Critics about Coplu's work By Michael
P. Duggan
Dreaming
of
a
Land
of
CockayneWe
all have
dreams and some of us dream
even when we are awake, some of us are daydream believers and inhabit
another
world in our mind, like that world that was described in the Middle
Ages in Europe as the “Land of Cockayne”. Instead of
all the sorrows, difficulties and problems of everyday life and the
worries and
fears, the tensions and doubts of this our everyday, this is the land
where the
delectable chickens fly to you, without feathers and already spiced and
roasted, just where and when you want them, all ready to eat on a
plate,
carrying the knife and fork and the apple sauce; where the pies hang on
strings
for the picking, the cakes sprinkled with currants dot the firmament,
where the
bread is already baked, warm and waiting for you, and the inexhaustible
rounds
of ripe cheese form the walls of buildings, where the fruit is always
ripe and
always hanging on the tree, most certainly a land of promise.
Continue
reading By Coline Milliard Love it
Takes Two
What is more important than
love? What is more fulfilling
and
thrilling than meeting one’s other half, the only being in the world
that
complements one perfectly? In his latest series of acrylics on canvas It Takes Two, Coplu celebrates
the miracle of love. Using an extraordinary palette of bright colours,
he
stages two characters, a man and a woman, going through different
stages
towards harmony. The artist is no naïf – he is fully aware that
daily life is
much harsher than the round and vivid universe he depicts in his work.
But
together these pieces form a manifesto. Coplu purposefully embraces the
positive side of existence; his paintings are an ode to happiness, joy,
humour
and love.
Continue
reading Hopes
Wonders of Existence
Coplu’s creatures appear soft
and sweet
but they grapple with the same existential concerns as us all. Like
heroes from
a fable, the challenges that these sympathetic creatures address are
abstracted
versions of common human concerns. Their dramas and joys are compelling
metaphors for the fundamental issues underlining our universal struggle
for
understanding and happiness.
In his current series, Coplu casts his creatures within poetic scenarios involving oversized eggs. The eggs are seen either unbroken, as empty shells or presented like the delicious highlight on a breakfast plate. In both cases, the eggs serve as striking symbols of life’s potential and its mysteries. Continue reading Coplu's interview with CNA,
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