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I Love Eternal Life

I Love Eternal Life

Photography, pigment print, 1/5+1AP
55 x 55 (95 x 95) cm
2019
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Introduction

This photo by Holger Loodus is from his solo show “Reimagining Those Old Slopes” at Kogo gallery 6.02.-20.03.2021.

 “Reimagining Those Old Slopes” depicts a process in which the vision of the universe known from history demystifies and becomes a product aimed for the masses. Through his own eyes, the artist modernises the purgatory hill created by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri at the beginning of the 14th century. Holger Loodus aims to look at how a mystical object loses its moralising content to become an easily acceptable attractive design object. However, this process opens up completely new perspectives. 

Read more about the exhibition here.

About the artist

Holger Loodus (1970) is an artist mainly working with painting and installation. One of the more prominent methods in his work is the mystification of daily experiences. Loodus’ earlier work can be characterized as magical realism, whereas his later work can be better understood through notions of sci-fi or alternative histories.

Holger Loodus graduated from the Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation (BA, 2008) and the Department of Painting in the Faculty of Fine Arts (MA, 2012) at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2011 he studied in the Media Art department of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. In 2012 Loodus was awarded the Young Artist Prize. In 2018 he received the People’s Choice Award of the Köler Prize and the annual prize of the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Read more about Holger Loodus and look at her selected projects at CCA artists database and artist website.

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