Håkon Anton Fagerås (b. 1975 in Drøbak, Norway) creates sculptures that fascinate, surprise and innovate. Working with Italian Carrera marble, he is among the few sculptors left who still master the art of creating marble sculptures, a laborious process requiring many years of practice to be able to perfect. His skill in rendering humans is sublime; however, as opposed to sculptors of centuries past, he does not depict an ideal model of human beauty, instead focusing on individual features – on the particular, the human and the recognizable. Often, he plays with tradition, recreating the idealized forms of the past, but with something off – creating realistic areas of breakage, as if we are looking at an ancient fragment where some parts are lost. Some of his most fascinating sculptures utilize his skill in recreating surfaces and textures that look like the actual object to its fullest – creating pillows of the purest white marble that look like real pillows but are not, and fashioning realistic downy moths that perch on his sculptures, he plays with our senses and expectations. Håkon holds a degree from the National Academy of Art in Oslo, and has worked with marble since 1999. He has designed three coin faces for the Bank of Norway, and he has created several public monuments, including a monument to Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. He has exhibited at museums and galleries in Norway and Denmark, including Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, Norway, Vigelandmuseet and Galleri Haaken in Oslo, Norway and here at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen.