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.
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