Author: Hugo Kovadloff
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-631-00-5846-7
Language: Spanish
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 116
Format: 26 × 21 x 10 cm
Printing: Akian Gráfica Editora
Editing and Proofreading: Ezequiel Díaz Ortiz and Damasia Böhtlingk
Elogio de la Luz is an invitation to rediscover the everyday through the lens and sensibility of Hugo Kovadloff. It is a poetic and visual tribute to light as a transformative force. Throughout its pages, the author takes us on an intimate and deeply contemplative journey through images that reveal details invisible to the hurried eye. Fruits, flowers, skies imbued with eternity, and even the outline of a cat are transfigured by the light that caresses them and rescues them from the opacity of everyday life.
In Elogio de la Luz, photography is more than a record: it is a dialogue between the artist and that which inspires him. Each image is both a portrait and a self-portrait, a testament to the profound and enduring relationship between the observer and the observed. During the pandemic, his pictorial expression knew no bounds, as he managed to create a remarkable diversity of photographic images within a limited space.
This book brings together a selection of ninety-four photographs, the most outstanding works from his artistic journey. It is a twofold offering. On the one hand, it reflects the artist’s gratitude toward all that has inspired him: urban landscapes, everyday objects, shadows, and fleeting moments of light that offer us different perspectives on our surroundings. On the other, it presents readers with an emotional universe that invites them to pause, contemplate, and ultimately reconnect with themselves.
In the words of Santiago Kovadloff, who gave the book its title: “To contemplate is much more than to see. One contemplates when one enters into the living presence of what one observes and allows what is seen to transform them.”
