Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer born in 1946 in Weymouth, Massachusetts (EU). His photographs are surreal style. Today she teaches the photo at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Sandy Skoglund's works have been revealed in Europe since 1983 by his famous "Radioactive cats" (1980), an apocalyptic vision represented by twenty-eight green cats prowling in a room uniformly gray, still inhabited by two characters. It was from this picture a sense of horror and vague threat, but also a fantasy and an acid wacky climate reminiscent of both HG Wells, Spielberg and Walt Disney. The strange and fascinating Sandy Skoglund is the fine line between the rational and the irrational. As much as a question of aesthetic perception, these tragic fictions or parody of the real world with amazing accuracy denounce the imposture of the real and exorcise the celebration of pretense repressed fantasies of a society that no longer exists by the image of its representation.

The work of Sandy Skoglund is specific in its interdisciplinary. His artistic results of a particular mediums, photography, defined here as a temporary marker role, the paint used as a means to assimilate subjects and objects and sculpture in order to organize the space.

"I started by drawing objects, familiar objects. Shortly after I realized that I was creating an image, which seemed quite daring after all these years punctuated by the history of art, film and design philosophy. And it is this approach that led me to do photography.” (Koetzle, 304-313) Moreover, the plasticity of the work of Sandy Skoglund is accompanied by an essential work of staging. It is rightly that many critics have cited his work as "photographic paintings". It uses pictures and places known to have been able to do his work in Cindy Sherman, a photographer who has visual itself ...