Bio

Loonar is a Dutch visual artist who abandoned a promising career in music management
and instead committed to telling stories through art.

Originally educated as a media researcher at Utrecht University he developed a critical perspective
on the quickly evolving world that we live in. As well as the many assumptions that we use to frame 
this world. For example: is it reasonable to say that the world is evolving quickly?
Many things seem apparent, although in practice they rarely are. 

 

Loonar prefers questions to answers, because answers have a tendency to be incorrect.
It is up to anyone to decide what a work means, the creator does nothing more than offer a suggestion.

In late 2018 Loonar moved back to his birthplace Vlissingen to create time for a period of uninterrupted
development. He taught himself to work with the 3D software package Blender to have a virtual sandbox
where he can create and polish his installations. It would also enable him to work with different materials
further down the road. In 2019 he eventually fell in love with the material that he had envisioned to
provide merely the starting point of his journey. It was only after 7 years of working with balloons that he
realised how much further the possibilities of this material can be pushed. The next few years he will
share this explorative journey with the world. Meanwhile asking the questions that he himself has carried 
around for the latter half of the 29 years that he has walked this earth.

Press
Regional newspaper PZC on Loonar - February 29th, 2020