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Nicolai Howalt: Fasciation no. 1, 2019. Cast in alpaca silver, 100 x 25 x 25 cm
Nicolai Howalt’s sculpture Fasciation no. 1 pictures a rare condition with plants that lead to an unnormal growth. It can be expressed in the plant’s stem, root, fruit, or flower, and in the case of Fasciation no. 1, it is the stem that has gotten a flat structure that winds around itself. The work is refined, cast in silver, and points to the aesthetic and beautiful qualities that exist in the plant’s sick growth condition. Howalt’s artistic practice is especially directed towards photography but during the last years, the artist’s work has also circled scientific phenomena that
he dives into and meticulously treats in his works. He often starts with concrete methods or tangible subjects and from there, he rises complex and existentialist questions.
Nicolai Howalt (1970, DK) graduated from the Danish school of photography Fatamorgana in 1992. Howalt has exhibited nationally and internationally at Nikolaj Art Centre, DK; Medicine Museion, DK; Bruce Silverstein, US; Bornholm
Art Museum, DK; Gallery Edel Assanti, DK; Art Hall North, DK; Den Frie Art Centre, DK; Maison du Danemark, FR; Esbjerg Art Museum, DK; ARoS, DK; Photographic Centre, DK; The Art Association GL STRAND, DK; C/O Berlin, DE; Brandts, DK; The Station Project, US, among others. His works are part of the collections at The J. Paul Getty Mu-seum, US; Artphilein Foundation, IT; Maison Européenne de Photographie, FR; MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, ES; New Carlsberg Foundation, DK; The National Arts Foundation, DK; The National Museum of Photography, DK; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, DK, among others. Howalt is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery, DK, and Galerie Maria Lund, FR.
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