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TOM SANDBERG

Tom Sandberg (b. 1953) is one of the most acknowledged Norwegian photographers today, exhibited internationally through major galleries and museums.
Sandberg uses black and white photography with an authenticity regarding the medium, revealing a subtle exploration of the inherent qualities of the photographic language.
Visual economy and an affinity for complex reality characterizes his works in ambiguous surfaces that do not quite reveal themselves. In this absence emerges an equivocal tension of visual paradoxes and alarmed silence.
Sandberg's abstraction is loaded with reductive concentration in images of human features as well as skyscapes, earth surfaces, cars and aeroplanes. The images' aura of immateriality releases the escaping pressure of the contemplative.
In 2000 he had a large retrospective exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. His works are found in several Scandinavian, European and US collections.
Tom Sandberg currently lives and works in Oslo and Paris.

©Tom Sandberg
UNTITLED, 2004
black and white photograph
100 x 150 cm, edition of 3
60 x 90 cm, edition of 6