Christoph Loos: Nanna-Paradox (Non-mint)

Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.79 x 31.5 cm | 146 pp

Wienand | 2007 | 9783879098910

Christoph Loos has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with the element of wood since the very beginning of his artistic career, and has examined it through the most diverse media - woodcuts, sculptures, drawings and photographs.

Loos explores the tree as a metaphor for the existential manifestation of memory, time and progression, and as a symbol of an entity in which the dialectic of shell and seed, inside and outside – through to the final degree of life and death – is apparent. The intensity and dedication with which Loos approaches the essence of the tree in its complex archaic conception may not be least of all a result of the fact that the artist is, on his mother’s side, the scion of an old dynasty of “wood barons”, in which a knowledge of this very special resource has been handed down over generations. The techniques that Loos makes use of are as diverse as the object itself.

In Nanna-Paradox, after the tree trunks have been opened, actors enter into a short-lived and unusual union with the trees by putting their heads or arms into these openings.

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