Marko Pogačnik
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'''Marko Pogačnik''' (born 1944) is a [[Slovenia]]n artist and author.
Pogačnik was born in the [[Upper Carniola]]n town of [[Kranj]]. He studied at the Academy of Arts of the [[University of Ljubljana]] where he graduated in 1967. Between 1965 and 1971, he was part of the neo-[[avantgarde]] artistic movement [[OHO]] (in which [[Tomaž Šalamun]] and [[Slavoj Žižek]] also participated). From the 1980s he embraced a [[holistic]] vision of art. He claims to have developed a method of earth healing similar to [[acupuncture]] by using pillars and positioning them on so called 'lithopuncture' points of the landscape[http://www.eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/17eeeba95485e0805b847d8a004563df/].
In 1991, he designed the official [[Coat of arms of Slovenia|coat of arms]] of the newly constituted Republic of [[Slovenia]]. In the year 2006, he joined the [[Movement for Justice and Development]] led by [[Janez Drnovšek]], the [[President of Slovenia]] at the time.
He lives and works in the village of [[Šempas]] in the lower [[Vipava Valley]]. In the last decade, the town of [[Nova Gorica]], in which municipal territory he resides, has commissioned a number of public monuments to Pogačnik, most notably the monument to the 1000 years of the first mention of [[Gorizia|Gorica]] and [[Solkan]], which stands in the town's central public square.
== Publications ==
*''Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings - Working with the Intelligence in Nature'' (Findhorn Press, [[Scotland]], 1996).
==See also==
*[[Anthroposophy]]
*[[New Age]]
*[[Flag of Slovenia]]
*[[National symbols of Slovenia]]
==External links==
*[http://www.ljudmila.org/pogacnik/index.html Marko Pogacnik]
*[http://www.ukom.gov.si/img/insignia/grb.html Detailed description of the meaning of the Slovenian Coat of Arms, designed by Pogačnik]
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[[Category:Slovenian writers]]
[[Category:Spiritual writers]]
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