Blackout

Occupying a space between the documentary and the make-believe, Dan Holdsworth's photographs transform Icelandic glaciers into a strange and futuristic landscape. In Blackout the landscape is present only as a brooding, eerie image of itself: the blue of the sky has become the deep black of space, while the earth appears in pale negative. This lunarlike terrain humbles the viewer before a foreign, awe-inspiring nature and repositions the notion of the romantic sublime. Dan Holdsworth, born in 1974 in Welwyn Garden City, England is one of the most innovative British photographers working with landscape today. Holdsworth studied photography at the London College of Printing, and has exhibited internationally including solo shows at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and Barbican Art Gallery, London; and group shows at Tate Britain, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His work is held in collections including the Saatchi Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Exhibition: Brancolini Grimaldi, London, 23 March to 12 May 2012 Co-published with Brancolini Grimaldi, London