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Old Tjikko
Nicolai Howalt
published by: Fabrikbooks
year: 2019
designed by: Rasmus Koch Studio
printet by: Narayana Press.
format: 16.6 x 22,5 cm
no. of pages: 224
no. of illustrations: 97
hardcover, silver gilded edges
2nd edition – no. of edition: 1000
essays by: Henning Knudsen, Associate Professor Emeritus of Mycology, Natural History Museum of Denmark; Søren Gosvig Olesen, Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Copenhagen; Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Associate Professor in Art History, Aarhus University
ISBN 978-87-998207-5-7
**Winner of the 2020 Maribor Photobook Award**
**Winner of the 2020 Danish Book Design of the Year**
Featuring 97 unique images all derived from a single photographic negative, the artist’s book titled “Old Tjikko,” created by Danish visual artist Nicolai Howalt, stands in a class of its own. It encapsulates the story of the oldest known living organism and delves into the transient nature of photographic imagery, exploring the intricate interplay between time, reality, and perception.
The subject of this book, the tree Old Tjikko, majestically rises from a solitary landscape on a mountainside in Dalarna, Sweden. Holding the record as the world’s oldest tree, its venerable age of 9,600 years imbues it with unique significance. Remarkably, the diverse array of images within this book originate from a single photographic negative of this extraordinary spruce. Through the ingenious process of exposing the identical image on 97 distinct varieties of aged analogue light-sensitive photo papers – some harking back to the 1940s – Nicolai Howalt achieves a profound fusion in “Old Tjikko,” where the capricious behavior of long-expired photographic papers forms an integral and dynamic facet of each image.
The outcome is an almost organic tapestry of perception and expression: a myriad of 97 distinct interpretations of the same subject, spanning the spectrum from solemn black to ethereal white. These images encapsulate moments where the uncontrollable silver halides in the papers give rise to unexpected phenomena like meteor showers or landscapes veiled in dense fog. By challenging the inherent constancy of photographic imagery and underscoring the nuanced and frequently disregarded influence of materiality on our perception, it’s as though the imperfections that arise from the aging process of the papers unveil glimpses of a distant and divergent era. These dormant traces, resurrected by Howalt, alongside the suspended millisecond of a recently captured photographic negative depicting a tree – itself a living embodiment of an almost unfathomable timeline – all contribute to the evocation of the passage of millennia.
Mycologist Henning Knudsen, philosopher Søren Gosvig Olesen, and art historian Lars Kiel Bertelsen enrich this publication with three insightful essays that contextualize the work within the realms of natural sciences and biology, the philosophy of perception, and the annals of photography.
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