Arcady Kotler's work over the years
has explored the relationship
between formal parameters of sculpture
and its inner reality.
Appropriating aesthetics of modernism
as his own point of departure he
seeks to create new narrative possibilities
beyond modernism's territory.
His works incorporates artist's
own experiences, references to art
history, human consciousness and
nature.
Kotler's work embraces
the relationships between matter (perceived
as solid) and an “empty” space,
which permeating it inside out. Artist
explores virtually matter-less
nature of the material world through the
sculpture - yet the most tangible
form of art.
Born in 1959 in Moscow, Russia
Arcady Kotler received MFA in Fine
Art from Moscow Art Academy. Presently
he lives and works in New
York. The artist has received a
number of honors and awards including
Artist's Fellowship Grant and Gottlieb
Foundation Grant in 2003.
Kotler's work has been
represented at public and private collections
and institutions in United States
and abroad including those of the
Museum Of New Art ( MONA) Chicago,
Morris Art Museum,
Morristown, Storefront for Art
and Architecture, NY, Galleri Infra,
Stockholm , Edsvick Kunsthalle,
Sweden.
The commissions he created
among others include: 9/11Firefighter
Memorial, commissioned by FDNY,
“Intersecting Senses” installation
at Frihamnent, the Ports of Stockholm,Sweden,
2006 and the sculpture
of poet Costas Montis at Columbia
University, 2014.
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