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source: designboom

german artist hans kotter works at the intersection of photography, design, and technology, creating sculptures and installations
that give physical form to light. constantly exploring new materials and techniques, kotter has a body of work that ranges from
lightboxes of painting-like macro photography to optical-illusion-like LED sculptures to room-sized installations
that envelop visitors in emotive and visually stimulating washes of colour.

the streaming beams of coloured light in many of kotter’s works are in actuality enlarged photographs of murano glasswork
of the 1950s and ’60s, at times collaged with other highly saturated photos. some of kotter’s lightboxes showcase these images
on their faces, while others incorporate them along their sides, with warped mirrors as their front surfaces.
pieces like ‘colour code’ and ‘edge’ integrate LEDs to actually shift the tone of the backlighting, so that the sculpture itself
pulses through a range of colours.

art historian dr. markus wimmer reflects:

‘the luminous bodies transform into autonomous beings: sculptures of light changing not only the color of space,
but also restructuring it, dividing, delimiting, blocking, opening, tilting it and giving it new rhythm.
the use of montage gives the colored surface, the stripes and patterns and the scintillating effects an autonomy
which detaches them from the object of representation. the object is neither documented, nor is there any suggestion
of traces of it left behind in memory. the art of photography stands at the service of a multicolored light-painting.’
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source: kinetica-museum

In his art Hans Kotter focuses on the metaphoric and sensual perception of material and of aesthetics of form. Kotter’s theme is light. Light is a medium he has worked with again and again for years. His works always address it, tracing its most unexpected effects. In doing so, the diversity of light phenomena allows the artist to break fresh ground in finding highly varied possibilities of expression and ever-new techniques, materials and manners of presentation, which extend beyond the customary boundaries of the genre. Hans Kotter not only constructs light boxes, he also builds objects, pours things he has found into transparent resins, marks entire rooms with paths of light made of luminescent foils, and using his camera, approaches the most subtle phenomena of light.

A thin band of his luminescent foil, follows, winds around, and cuts through the architecture within Shunt Vaults, leaving traces and new impressions in the darkened exhibition space, forming part of the tunnel system and foundation of London Bridge station. Accustomed ways of seeing are thrown off completely as the glowing blue line appears to have its source of light within the walls. It negates the perspective of corners, edges and surfaces as its linearity robs the space of all sense of spatial continuity.

With minimalist means Hans Kotter pushes into the outer limits of perception. He gives light a sensual presence, an almost tactile density. In the dark emptiness of the exhibition space the colour-intensity of the strip of light becomes compelling and holds the viewer in a fascinating state of physical and mental ambiguity.
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source: kashyahildebrand

Born in Mühldorf am Inn, Germany; 1993/94 Art Students League (Membership), New York studied with Bruce Dorfman and William Scharf; 2004 Culture award E-ON Baveria AG.
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source: facebook/B21BrandingStudio

O artista alemão Hans Kotter investiga a dimensão da luz na série de obras de LEDs e espelhos.

A ilusão de um vortex de luz sem fim presente em suas peças depende do ponto de vista do observador, sendo que as diferentes cores são duplicadas infinitamente pelo espelho de fundo.
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source: antidepresivo

Hans Kotter es un artista de Mühldorf, Alemania. Su extenso trabajo lo ha dedicado al estudio de la luz, utilizando materiales como el Plexiglas, LEDs que cambian de colores y espejos, los cuales utiliza para crear piezas que parecen extenderse eternamente.

Visto desde una perspectiva adecuada sus trabajos se ven eternos, de la misma manera en que se ve un espejo frente a otro, en paredes opuestas.

Kotter utiliza LEDs de distintos colores que rebotan en espejos y se multiplican infinitamente. El considera que la luz es el elemento que más influencia tiene sobre el planeta. Son sus variaciones y su aspecto lo que lo inspiraron a investigar sobre su composición y sus variantes físicas.
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source: vacioesformaformaesvacio

Hans Kotter nació en 1966 en Mühldorf, Alemania. Su expresión artística está encauzada a la experimentación y al diseño e instalación de objetos y cajas luminosas, y lo concerniente a la luz. Durante los años 1993/1994 curso estudios en Art Students League ( escuela de arte independiente en Nueva York ) con Bruce Dorfman y William Scharf. En 2004 obtuvo el Premio de Cultura Baviera e-on ag studio programa Berlin. En 2007 fue profesor en la Academia Estatal de arte + diseño de stuttgart, Alemania. En 2011 artista en residencia, arte radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croacia.
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source: innerdesign

Il lavoro complesso e tecnico di Hans Kotter, e i risultanti “quadri di luce”, possono definirlo come un pittore di luce e un artista sperimentale. Colori fluorescenti e forme infinite emergono da scatole luminose in 3D costruite nell’ambiente. Effetti di oscillazione, rifrazione, diffrazione e la concentrazione di luce creano effetti illusori e forme che assomigliano a tracce fuggitive di energia luminosa. L’uso del neon nelle sue opere e installazioni gli permette di agire direttamente sullo spazio espositivo e cambiare il suo aspetto, così come testare i canali percettivi dell’osservatore che cerca di individuare sia i punti di riferimento visivo che percettivi.