Dan Holdsworth

I över 30 år har den brittiske konstnären Dan Holdsworth blandat konst, vetenskap och natur för att skapa verk som utmanar våra uppfattningar om, och återuppfinner, begreppet landskap. Han studerade fotografi vid London College of Printing (1998) och har ställt ut internationellt på Barbican Art Gallery, London, Tate Britain, London, och Centre Pompidou, Paris. Hans verk återfinns bland annat i samlingarna hos Tate Collection, Saatchi Collection, The Denver Art Museum Collection, och Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Nordin Gallery, Stockholm, ställde ut ut Holdsworths serie "Blackout" 2011. Så här beskrevs utställningen: "This is Dan Holdsworth's first exhibition in Scandinavia. Holdsworth is known for his landscape photographs where nature, architecture and technology merge with light and space to create powerful visions of the contemporary world. In Blackout, Holdsworth presents photographs taken in Iceland, a volcanic world where day is night and ice is sooty pitch. Holdsworth's negative images are literally double inversions; their black and white clarity denies all natural logic. The effect is to make the sublime modular and spectacularly tangible: glaciers are transformed with sculpted solidity, as if they could be contained in the palm of a hand, slopes bulge with the scratchy transparency of glass, containing prisms of spectral hues, and expanses of atrementaceous sky bear down, all consuming voids. The actualisation of Holdsworth's images is no less deceptive; these photographs are more reminiscent of handmade media. Their strange aesthetic, like diagrammatic etching, combines ideas of New World exploration and futurism, diving into almost pure abstraction, as illusorily textured and gestural as painting, where the terrain is perceived as a tangible geo-psyche surface, a synaesthetic confusion between sight and touch."