1. by Teemu Hupli

Howalt’s book stirs one’s habitual assumptions about not only how and why we look at photographs, but also about how they and we, all of us collectively and individually, are actually situated in the long continuum of history—which we can only hope will not repeat itself without limit. Are we alone in the system? If we are, what does it mean—if anything? If we aren’t, then what? Are we pointless lumps of matter, marginal side products of the cosmic process? Or something more…?

1. by Brad Feuerhelm

Despite my alarming lack of interest in the matters of Mars or space itself, I can admit that I am taken with the consequence of the production of the book itself, if less the subject matter, which still has, despite my stated claims of aversion and seething annoyance, some exciting prospects at its base. It would be bad manners not to look at Nicolai, a respected Danish artist, and his work with anything but respect.

1. by Emil Bergløv

»Jeg elsker at bruge fotografiet til at kigge på noget, jeg ikke forstår. Det er min måde at se verden på. Det er en eller anden robot, der render rundt og tager billeder på Mars, og så siger man ’fuck, mand, der har været vand’, ’der har været iskapper’, ’der er poler’, jeg skal komme efter dig«. ...

1. by Collier Brown

“That’s one of the interesting tensions in this book. Though it’s a land survey, topographical in nature, it’s also a survey that belongs to an aesthetic tradition of scenic views going back millennia.” ...

1. by PIA SIRI ISAKSSON
2. published 2021

Howalts svartvita bilder skapar en sorts utsträckt kollage av olika exponeringar från samma plats och vinkel av samma träd. Fastän att det är kopior av samma bild, ger de en stark förnimmelse av förändring över tid.

1. by John Erik Riley
2. published 2020

Men selv de mest innarbeidede ritualene – som treet i stua – kan være mer mangefasetterte enn vi tror. Old Tjikko er en påminnelse om nødvendigheten av å se det ukjente i det kjente. Det gjelder bare å trene blikket. ...

1. by Dana Stirling
2. published 2020

As a photographer, I am extremely interested in the way that photography is anchored in something that has been seen and then fixated. It is after this fixation that an image can grow, evolve and sometimes even end up showing something that wasn’t necessarily there in the first place...

1. by Nikolaj Heltoft
2. published 2020

Nu sidder vi her og drømmer om, at vi næste år har en vaccine, så alt kan blive det samme igen. Gu gør det ej. Det bliver sgu ikke det samme. Vi skal nok overleve, det er jeg ikke i tvivl om, men vi bliver formet lige nu, og der bliver skabt et nyt udgangspunkt«.

1. by Stefan Vanthuyne
2. published 2020

Old Tjikko seems to hold out amid war and total destruction. And so this book does evoke more ideas about time and temporality, about image and materiality.

1. by Collier Brown
2. published 2019

Old Tjikko evokes that “mythological power” as a “tangible image of eternity.” “To me,” he says, “Old Tjikko almost becomes a sort of archetype of this duality because of its high age.” It’s a comment on our relationship, or really our lack of a relationship, to eternity. ...

1. by Søren Gosvig Olesen
2. published 2019

This is not a tree. It is a series of images of a tree, all one and the same. As if they are trying to sustain it. But the tree disappears. Into fog, or is it dusk, or night arriving? It vanishes into shifting shades of color. Where is it? ...

1. by Lars Kiel Berthelsen
2. published 2019

As the saying goes: You cannot see the forest for the trees. But what does it actually mean? That the big picture, the whole, will disappear in favor of the singular? That abstract concepts hide behind the material? That perspectives shift, demonstrating that what is visible rests alone on point of ...

1. by Henning Knudsen
2. published 2019

Old Tjikko, as you see him in the photographs in this book, with his trunk and branches, is about 5-600 years old. However, the team, which investigated Old Tjikko and similar trees nearby, found that parts of Old Tjikko’s root system can be dated back even further. When carbon-14 dating was applied ...

1. by Irene Ramón
2. published 2018

Nicolai Howalt is a photographer with a particular interest in science. Using contradictions to find balance, his artwork is based on what comes from nature but is transformed by man. We talk about his work, mostly inspired by scientific phenomena and human instinct, as well as his new book and some ...

1. by Anja C. Andersen
2. published 2017

Tycho Brahe was primarily engaged in alchemy, but on the eleventh of November 1572 he noticed a new star in the stellar constellation Cassiopeia. He described the appearance of the new star as “the greatest wonder to have appeared in nature since the formation of the world”. ...

1. by Sophie Pucill
2. published 2017

Exceptionally old spruces (Picea abies) have become documented in connection with an extensive research project carried out in the Scandes of northern Sweden. The main objective is to increase our understanding and predictability of alpine / subalpine landscape. ...

1. by Sophie Pucill
2. published 2017

Exceptionally old spruces (Picea abies) have become documented in connection with an extensive research project carried out in the Scandes of northern Sweden. The main objective is to increase our understanding and predictability of alpine / subalpine landscape. ...

1. by Bodil Johanne Monrad
2. published 2016

Art and science tries to understand the world in different ways. Where science examine, measure and seek anchorage in the real world and in those things that can be methodically observed, art does not restrict itself to the knowledge we rationally agree on. ...

1. by Kristine Kern
2. published 2017

Når man ser Nicolai Howalts praksis fra oven, kan den ses som en bevægelse mod en stadig større grad af abstraktion, hvor hans praksis spænder over både dokumentar og konceptuelt fotografi, bøger og installationer. ...

1. by Kirstine Autzen
2. published 2016

I de senere års diskussioner af fænomenet ”kunstnerisk forskning” er spørgsmål som Hvordan produceres viden? Hvordan formuleres viden og hvordan anvendes viden? ...

1. by Ion Meyer
2. published 2015

Light has always been associated with life and health. Life and vitality became central themes during the period of upheaval that concluded the 19th century. ...

1. by Henning Knudsen
2. published 2019

Artifact: A visible sign of the process by which an image is made. Light Break presents an innovative body of work by contemporary Danish photographer, Nicolai Howalt (1970 - ), exploring convergences between aesthetic and therapeutic interests in light. ...

1. by Anne Sofie Rasmussen
2. published 2014

Light permeates the history of representation, and it has played a crucial role as an agent of the modern. ...

1. by Anna Sinofzik
2. published 2013

A study of car crashes is a study of the world’s fascination with them. Cars crash throughout the story lines of drama, pulp fiction, soap operas, and video games, to be watched from remote controlled safety or steered with joysticks in technology’s remove. ...

1. by Rachel Stern
2. published 2013

I’m not sure whether I’m interested in death as an isolated theme. I see death more as an unavoidable aspect of life — part of a continuum.

1. by Kristina Lykke Hansen
2. published 2012

When a star is dying, it swells up and turns red, then it explodes and shrinks. The explosion sends a very large quantity of stardust out into space, but in time the elements in various dust clouds accumulate and form new stars and planets. ...

1. by Kristine Kern
2. published 2012

Nicolai Howalt’s series ‘Endings’ depicts what lies beyond the image. The photo series is about death, but in a very abstract sense. The series consists of 14 large-scale color prints. ...

1. by Martin Asbæk
2. published 2011

When a star is dying, it swells up and turns red, then it explodes and shrinks. The explosion sends a very large quantity of stardust out into space, but in time the elements in various dust explodes and shrinks. ...

1. by Liz Wells
2. published 2010

The “Golden Age” of Danish painting, early to mid-nineteenth century, was characterized by a new detailed mode of depiction and by focus on everyday subject-matter that can be seen as proto-photographic. ...

1. by Torben Sangild
2. published 2009

The collision when you walk into a door. The collision when galaxies clash over millions of years. The collision when centrifuged protons are hurled against each other in a fraction of a millisecond... ...

1. by Jane Fletcher
2. published 2007

The work How to Hunt might appear, at first glance, to be an objective record of a number of hunts that took place in their native Denmark; a far remove from Notman’s Canadian constructions. ...

1. by Kristina Lykke Hansen
2. published 2006

The quarry Hunters say that it is harder to shoot a photo of an animal than actually to shoot one, since the former has to be beautiful while the latter only has to be dead. ...

1. by Lasse Krog Møller
2. published 2004

Boxing provokes discussion and debate, and can divide any crowd into camps for and against. For example those looking at Nicolai Howalt’s images of young boys who ve had a beating. Some them a serious beating ...

1. by Edward Bunker
2. published 2003

Looking at the faces of these neophyte pugilists, I am struck by how young they appear. Did I look so young and unscarred half a century ago when I tried my hand at the "sweet science", as it is sometimes called by devotees? These youths must be newcomers, for none has the standard flattened nose, ...