Photography as an eye open on reality

Photography is not reality, says Tom Vack in his images. Photography is an eye observing reality, staging it and representing it. The photographer finds beauty in the messy chaos of life and identifies associations of colours, materials and forms where they are normally overlooked. He turns on a light that cannot go off again, once it has revealed a composition. This is Tom Vack when he takes a photograph: he cuts out a fragment of the world. He takes his photos at right angles to a surface made up of multiple levels, or in perspective, portraying a landscape which then becomes a flat image, representing the roofs, walls and details of the city in a sequence of exclusively decorative patterns. City skylines woven by chance, which Tom Vack redesigns by photographing fragments of them which he then reinterprets with digital technologies. Architecture as an abstract canvas, on which details and forms lose their meaning, transformed into pure signs ready to be reinterpreted in a new way every time.
 
Mara Corradi
 
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