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. ...
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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. ...
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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«. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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”. ...
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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. ...
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Light is the very basis of our existence and has been important to human beings throughout the ages. The coming or presence of light is a crucial element in many religions. Light and the sun have always been the subject of artistic contemplation and scientific enquiry. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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I de senere års diskussioner af fænomenet ”kunstnerisk forskning” er spørgsmål som Hvordan produceres viden? Hvordan formuleres viden og hvordan anvendes viden? ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Light permeates the history of representation, and it has played a crucial role as an agent of the modern. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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... ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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, o ...
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