sandro kopp

sandro kopp

Bodyweb Nudes

The Bodyweb series was started during Lockdown in 2020, they are all drawn during live sittings on Zoom, Skype or FaceTime. Size is mainly A2 (42 x 59.4 cm)

Excerpt from the catalogue to Doch at Mannheimer Kunstverein, May 2021:

“At an exhibition of mine some years ago, a boy of maybe 8 years walked up to me, pointed to the paintings on the walls and asked: “why are they all naked?” I did not have a good answer to hand, but – having clarified my thoughts a little since then -I would say this: I did my first life drawings when I was about 17… a friend of a friend was pregnant and it was suggested that I draw her because she looked so beautiful. As I did, I had a very clear sensation that this was exactly what I was supposed to spend my life doing. I carried on an and began to have the nagging feeling that something was missing… it wasn’t until I almost passed out that I realised that I had forgotten to breathe because I was concentrating so intensely. This can still happen to me sometimes. (Both the sense of purpose and the forgetting to breathe while drawing.) When I look at a nude, particularly a good nude painting, it generates a subtle, primordial sense of relaxation in me: the relief of a deep part of me being reminded that under the clothes and schedules and cultural intricacies, we are these beautiful, weird, eating, sleeping, shitting, fucking, fragile animal flesh machines.”