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Having grown up in Germany, emigrated to New Zealand in 2000, after graduating Abitur majoring in fine art and English. Lived and studied in Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2006 based in the Highlands of Scotland, working primarily in figurative painting and drawing. Some exhibitions include : -October 2022, Glimpses, pop-up, London.
Kopp – known for his colourful abstract paintings and figurative portraits, along with small portraits of the human eye – is holding his first New Zealand exhibition since 2011. GalaXcellsis on...
Dec 27, 2019 · Sandro Kopp: There was a drawing of two hippos bumping their bottoms against each other in a children’s book I had when I was a little kid. Looking at this image caused a heightened state of ...
For Sandro Kopp, of German and New Zealand descent, painting and film have often been entwined. He met his partner, actor Tilda Swinton, on the set of The Chronicles of Narnia in Aotearoa - she was the White Witch, he a centaur. He’d previously appeared as an elf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Nov 3, 2021 · The French Dispatch (2021) Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. Sandro Kopp’s art is the star of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. Art & Photography Q+A. The artist was commissioned to create the masterpieces by the film’s criminally insane prodigy Moses Rosenthaler – here, he discusses making the art that acts as the drama’s significant plot point.
May 17, 2019 · In his new show, mEYEcelium, at the gorgeous Palazzo Grimani Museum in Venice, the artist Sandro Kopp, has created something similar with the eye—abstracting it from the human face in order to amplify and deepen our relationship to it. Seen together, the eyes, 116 of them in total, become a silent, staring crowd.
Sandro Kopp is a painter, based in the Scottish Highlands Wes Anderson’s recently released film The French Dispatch is about a fictional painter (played by Benicio del Toro) and, among other things, his artistic journey from figuration to abstraction.
