Substance to Shadows | Kyrre Mogster at Tøn Gallery

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Kyrre Mogster presents ‘Substance to Shadows’, a body of paintings depicting a kind of hedonism and human folly. Made with ink and oil stick on canvas, the series uses excess, indulgence, and collapse as an allegory for what results from dogmatic thinking — when ideas harden and refuse to be questioned.
The inspiration for the work comes from a series of books by American sociologist Alvin Gouldner that addresses the dangers of failing to confront and interrogate our
ideological biases. For Mogster, Gouldner’s warning becomes visual. The work asks what happens when we stop testing our beliefs against the world.