Pierre Coupey Selected Work 2022-2024 Single Page Final Sept20 - Flipbook - Page 7
Painting to see things happen is also central to Coupey’s method, both as an
intellectual position that explains why he paints, and as a description of the
way he physically goes about making a painting.
— Dion Kliner
Born of a poet’s sensibility, these vibrant, rigorous works bear the scars of
being seduced by and resisting nostalgia. They’re improvisational, muscular,
teased from impulses both besotted by and in flight from recurrence and
abstraction. They’re sensual, lyrical, sometimes angry; they track the hidden,
the feared, the unrecognizable, and the longed for.
— Colin Browne
To paint a mark within the pictorial quadrant is to make the mark of meaning
that knows no limit… to trace the tremor of the hand that tries to recuperate
all that is forgotten … to find those words that are lost in their utterance…
to reach into the vortex of the pictorial quadrant and inscribe a web of
gestures to infinity…
— Ian Wallace