Photography Hatje Cantz Verlag | Dan Holdsworth

Mapping The Limits Of Space Surveys English Artist Dan Holdsworth’S 20-Year Career. Since 1996 Holdsworth Has Explored The “Extreme” Territories That Characterise Humans’ Changing Relationship To The ‘Natural’ World In The Anthropocene. The Volume Also Reveals Holdsworth’S (*1974) Most Recent Body Of Work. Since 2012 The Artist Has Worked With Academic Geologists To Map The Exact Contours Of Alpine Glaciers, Using Drones, Lasers, Photography, And High-End Software Used By The Military And Academy. We Encounter Millions Of Points In Space, Each Millimetre-Perfect, That Plot The Outline Of A Changing Landscape. Produced In Collaboration With The Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, The Publication Offers New Insights Into Holdsworth’S Innovative Practice.
Exhibition: 16.12.2017–17.3.2018, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, 1.6.–30.8.2018 Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland