My awareness of Holdsworths Blackout extends back over ten years to while on my undergraduate study. My interest here becomes a lot more circumstantial.
I feel a direct resemblance between Holdsworths exposures of Icelandic mountains rendered in this ghostly negative form and my own cling film landscapes. My imagery has come to represent hillsides and mountain ranges of their own.
The abstract appearance of Holdsworths images compare to my ‘non-images’ of topographic landforms.
The work of Blackout is made to be big! In these installations views (below) we see how the work lends itself to large scale presentation in often quite sterile places. The size and openness of the BALTIC centre in Gateshead allows the viewer to step back sufficiently to view the works from a distance while also enabling one to go closer for inspection.
In these examples I feel the Gateshead show is far more successful than the example in Stockholm. The smaller room, although making the work more intimate, does not allow one to stand back and admire the work in sequence.
Blackout. (2010). Retrieved from: http://holdsworth.works/dan-holdsworth-blackout
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