The only child of a builder and an amateur actress, Alex was privy to both, technical and artistic views of the world from the beginning of his life. As early as four years of age, he used to spend countless hours in his father's shop drawing everything he saw around him. While his father taught Alex the ageless techniques of wood and metal craft, his mother opened his eyes to the possibilities of artistic imagination.
As a young adult, Alex had to first focus on acquiring a trade. At his father's advice, he enrolled into the Technical School of Machinery Construction and later, following his inner calling, he enrolled into the very selective and prestigious Prague Academy of Applied Art, where he earned a Master Degree in Sculpture and Industrial Design. There he perfected his understanding of materials and their applications.
The ageless beauty and serenity of Prague with its centuries old art and architecture fed Alex's effervescent imagination and pushed him toward a more artistic use of his design abilities. Alex started thinking about metal as a sculptural material, seeing an intrinsic beauty rather than pragmatic usage of an individual object.
Instead of more common casting and assembly of ready made parts, Alex preferred a more complex fabricating process, physically shaping and forming a sharp flat sheet of metal into sophisticated curvilinear form inspired by his imagination. To reflect a true poetry of the form, Alex oftentimes, enhanced the character of steel and bronze with magnificent patinas.
Having established himself as a mature sculptor in his native Czechoslovakia, Alex faced a life changing dilemma to remain in his communist homeland, or to leave the country, in hopes to find the artistic freedom and future he craved for at home.
In 1982, Alex left his homeland. He traveled to Austria where he created several successful commissions. After spending a year there, he came to United States, where almost immediately he began a challenging and successful career as the Head of Art Division at one of United States leading art and architectural metal fabricators.
For over thirty years, Alex has applied his knowledge, expertise, and talent to transform vision into reality. Following his inspiration, Alex created pieces shown in numerous group and individual exhibitions and privately held in collections in North America and Europe. His sculpture "Porcupine Caribou", a corten steel ten feet tall structure, is on permanent display at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
Just a few renowned artists Alex has worked with are Bernard Venet, Robert Indiana, Larry Bell and John Raimondy .
Alex shares a patent for AlgoRytm Technologies with Dr. Haresh Lalvani, an architect-morphologist, inventor of curvilinear structures. Alex transformed Dr. Lalvani's theories into 3-D ethereal metallic creations that have started a revolution in modern architecture.
Bronze is Alex's preferred medium, enhanced with his own patinas. He also likes to work with stainless steel, with its high-mirrored surfaces.
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"Poetry in Metal"
My inspiration comes from studying the nature around us. The intricate structure of leaf, robustness of grass, wind blowing through an open window or moon reflecting in the water, all create the logical harmony of our nature's "building blocks". Nature is pure, clean, and precious in her own creation.
Such insights are on my mind when I create my sculptures. My sculptures, simple yet elegant are intended to enrich, decorate and above all distinguish the space as beautiful flowers or morning sunlight would do.
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