Philippe Coudari was born in march 1956 in the city of Aleppo (Syria), son of an Armenian mother and a French father. The same year, his family moved to Montreal in Canada where he is still living.

He feels privileged to have grown up at the crossroads of the European, Mediterranean and North American cultures and traditions.

He went into Pure Sciences and Graphic Arts studies. He obtained a Business Administration degree at the University of Quebec in Montreal and he held different jobs in different fields of activities.

In 1991, at age 36, he got interested in sculpture. Learning by himself he developped his own technique forming and modeling clay with a stick. Although he is attached to the human figure, he practically never uses a living model.

Since 1994, he travelled many times to Europe and the U.S. where he visited many museums, exhibitions and studios.

Between 1998-99 he had several short stays at Roseline Granet studio (Meudon, France) who initiated him into her plaster and wax technique.

In 2001 and 2002 he worked in Pietrasanta (Italy) at Wröbel, Francesconi and Palla studios where he was acquainted with the technique of the marble which he began to use in his work.

His work has been shown in Canada, United States, France, Italy and Czech Republic.

Says Philippe: “Whether working with the human form or being away from it, I try and hope to bring out in space and time the immateriality of the inner world, the intimate and vibrant fabric of the human condition. In front of a structure set in a form, I search to unify all the elements at hand (planes, tensions, volumes, effects of light) which can be built on it. This process is less aimed at creating something realistic than to bring out a truth which calls and questions the observer in his/her being, culture and memory, like totems staring at and speaking to the individual and the collectivity. By projecting his own human experience as the artist himself did previously, the observer becomes in his/her turn, actor and creator.” “That is why”, adds Philippe, “though necessary for practical purposes, I feel inappropriate for me to give a title to a work. I do not want to interfere in the slightiest with the observer creative process, leaving him/her free of all outside hints or meanings.”