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Tom Sandberg
October 30 - December 18, 2010

Tom Sandberg

Past exhibition
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  • Tom Sandberg

    October 30 – DEcember 18, 2010
    Ny Carlsberg vej 68, Copenhagen

    We are very pleased to present our third solo exhibition by the Norwegian artist Tom Sandberg. Since the seventies Tom Sandberg has worked continuously with the black and white photograph in an uncompromising, poetic and seductive manner. With a diverse subject matter that includes classical studies of the female body, natural objects, landscapes, people on the street, cloud formations, airplanes, cars and much more, Sandberg consequently masters to infuse his pictures with a strong sense of intensity and a personal presence.

     

    Tom Sandberg explores the photograph as a language and he generally works with his subjects abstractly as well as formally and sculpturally. Occasionally his works are based on highly personal relations, such as the images that depict his daughter from she was newborn until today and the photographs of his parents taken post mortem.

     

    Sandberg is one of the most acclaimed Norwegian artists and throughout his career he has exhibited at several significant international galleries and museums, one high point being the solo exhibition at the P.S.1. MOMA, New York in 2007.

     

    This year Tom Sandberg has received Anders Jahre’s Culture Award, which isconsidered the most prestigious award in Norwegian cultural life.

     

    Please contact the gallery for further information at: gallery@nilsstaerk.dk

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  • Works
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2005 Lambda on silver Bromide mounted on aluminium
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2005
      Lambda on silver Bromide mounted on aluminium
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2005/2010 Photo on canvas
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2005/2010
      Photo on canvas
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2005/2010 Photo on canvas
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2005/2010
      Photo on canvas
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2009 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2009
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
    • Tom Sandberg Untitled, 2010 Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
      Tom Sandberg
      Untitled, 2010
      Silver bromide print framed with museum glass
  • Artist Biography
  • Tom Sandberg 1953 - 2014 Born in Narvik, NO Lived and worked in Oslo, NO Tom Sandberg is known for...

    Tom Sandberg

    1953 - 2014 Born in Narvik, NO
    Lived and worked in Oslo, NO

     

    Tom Sandberg is known for his seductive and tactile black & white photographs. The characteristic works in rich grey tones have since the 1970s been the Norwegian artist’s undoubted signature. Sandberg was a photographer and a human being in constant motion, drawn by the magic of the moment and always hunting for his next motif. Sandberg’s photographic practice was linked to the tradition of straight photography - this artistic approach comes through in Sandberg’s clean and unmanipulated photographs where the captured moment stands without editing, revealing the artist’s eye for camera angling.

     

    In his work, Sandberg explored the surface and depth ratio in a motif and built an often ambiguous, yet very recognisable world of images. Sandberg’s photographs reveal his fascination for a complex visual reality; he consistently managed to capture cloud formations in the very moment that they would take on a different and more personal presence. Both his figurative and non-figurative works bear the same high level of intensity. Even the seemingly abstract works attracts the eye and engage our own mental images - what you see is not necessarily what you get. Tom Sandberg has exhibited at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, and Fondazione Fotografia Modena in Italy and his international recognition had its peak with the solo exhibition at MoMA – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center  in New York City in 2007.

     

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