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Description of Exhibition

The exhibition’s title, ‘SFUMATO,’ is a Renaissance term that describes the gentle transition between tones, in which things appear to dissolve into the atmosphere. The sfumato technique was masterfully used by such great artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio, who used it to create works imbued with remarkable depth and mystery. Cooper sees it as a metaphor for time, memory, and the fragility of existence, rather than a technique. His painting is quiet and contemplative, yet within this very stillness, one can hear the breath of eternity.

This exhibition reveals Yuri Cooper’s multifaceted talent: as a painter exploring silence and atmosphere, as a stage designer creating theatrical worlds, and as an artist for whom all forms of creative expression—from canvas to architecture—become a dialogue with eternity.

Cooper’s works are held in the world’s leading museums: the State Tretyakov Gallery, the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Hermitage, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Oslo, the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other major collections. His artistic career spans over 150 solo exhibitions in the world’s great cultural capitals—Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Florence, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg—each a significant event in the cultural life of its host country.