The sculpture Entangled Hands is part of the Slicing series started in 2014. The aim was to fuse digital and traditional techniques to produce innovative works of art. The sculpture forms a symbol of love. It is the Unification of two beings merging into one another. They seem to perform a sensual dance, its beat given through the steps of the sliced forms. The elongated fingers and the fused base form a long winding movement so the sculpture“s energy is kept within the inherent triangle of the silhouette.
Nils Hansen is an award-winning Sculptor and Digital Artist with over 25 years of experience. His sculptures have been displayed in public space around the world and his digital works have been collected on the most reknown Crypto Art platforms. They are featured in the Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA), the Whale collection and bought by other famous collectors like MantaXR, Akira and Xray. Nils' achievements in the field of art have been recognized through several awards and scholarships, including the A'Design Award in Silver and Bronze. His sculptures have been displayed in public spaces around the world, and his digital works have been exhibited at the Crypto Art Fair in Beijing, NFT Art Week in Hangzhou and Shenzhen, among others. Nils' exhibitions span across the globe, from the ETH Summit in Denver to the Wow Summit NFT-Expo in Dubai, the Mamilla Avenue in Jerusalem, and the Centro de Arte Alcobendas inMadrid. He has been nominated for the Innovation Prize Amateras Paper Art and selected as an Artist in Residence at the Silpakorn University in Bangkok. His studio is based in Berlin. Nils Hansen's work ranges from time-based digital pieces to elaborate visuals and monumental sculptures. In the last years he worked in the research and development department of Mercedes-Benz.
Working in both traditional and digital media, Nils Hansen is a very versatile Sculptor. Nils originally trained as a stone sculptor and achieved his Masters in this field, earning him numerous awards and scholarships. He spent two years in Carrara, Italy, where he refined his skills in the field of marble. Based on his extensive knowledge of anatomy and mastering figural expression in difficult media like stone, he has been able to easily transfer his traditional skills to digital media. He received a scholarship to further his studies and spent three years in Berlin at the Babelsberg Film School studying Digital Film Design with an emphasis on digital modeling. It was here that he also became involved in the remodeling of figures in film, working part of his time for a large 3D software company. Nils has been commissioned for a variety of projects from the more traditional scaling, in marble and bronze to relief portraiture modeled digitally and then 3D printed. Nils is regularly invited to various worldwide Sculpture Symposiums and participates in exhibitions around the world, where he has worked in and shown pieces in diverse materials, ranging from stone and metal to wax.