About

Collaborative studio work of an architect and the sculptor.

The concept of the design evolved from the interest in suggestive or even unexpected potential of material and form.

Representation

Marko Kratohvil, Sculptor

Jelena Erceg, Architect

Marko’s bio:

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Marko Kratohvil graduated with an MA in sculpture and moved to London in 1991, where he lived and worked for over 25 years. His work includes large scale public art, sculptures, drawings, and design of architectural features. In 2009 he moved to the US.

He describes his sculptures and his works on paper as “two means of expression.” He explains, “Both disciplines are linked by their formal vocabulary: line, form and color. Each work carries notions of space and movement, rhythm and energy, concept and form and aspire to articulate those fields of our experience that remain before or after verbalization. They are about inner landscapes, individual time, architecture of emotions.”

Kratohvil says of his work, “In order to express tensions and subtleties of these abstract notions, I use iron, which carries a complex historical reminiscence, and with its natural color acts in space as a drawing in charcoal does on paper. I express myself in the medium of sculpture because of my natural inclination towards three-dimensional perception and its physicality. It allows me to explore further beyond two dimensional illusions and outside of verbal conventions. Drawings are notes that speak about feelings, emotions or sometimes, simply about rhythm itself. They can be read and seen like a body language. Seeing is in itself a movement.”

Marko Kratohvil’s artwork is held in corporate and private collections worldwide. He has extensively exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.

Jelena’ bio:

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Jelena graduated with Architectural Engineering Degree in Belgrade and moved to Los Angeles in late 1980’s. She worked for several years in Los Angeles for smaller architectural offices and at the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles. Upon finishing work on Urban Design Plan for Hollywood, she went to Yale University to earn a Master of Architecture.

After working for couple of years in New Haven and New York she moved back to Los Angeles and spend some time working in Film Industry until she earned two Academy Awards for special effects in 2007 and 2013. After that she decided to move back to her original love, architecture and has stayed busy working in Southern California on residential projects.

Last couple of years she partnered with the sculptor Marko Kratohvil.