Miquel Salom, who is from the Mediterranean island of Majorca, is a masterful manipulator of light and image, working in photography without employing any digital effects whatsoever, purely direct representation. The current series titled Esperant [Waiting] captures glowing orbs and colourful spirals that have the power and energy of vortices. In these photographs, he represents light as we might sense it, as pure colour and energy, but passes beyond to an inner response, transcendental and infinite, that leaves one to meditate on existence, or in his own words,
“centuries…beings and souls, birth, beauty, death…always, always…life.”
MIQUEL SALOM: Esperant
10 February - 10 March 2009
Solar at Elga Wimmer PCC, Chelsea, New York
Esperant 2728
Esperant 2310
Esperant 173
Esperant 21
Esperant 2532
Esperant 11
Esperant 517
18 x 24 inches
Esperant 193
Esperant 2743
Esperant 2778
Esperant 645
Esperant 238
18 x 24 inches
Miquel Salom began exhibiting in Spain in 1975 and has worked consistently with photography in Europe and the United States where his pieces are in public and private collections. His most recent exhibition at the noted Joan Oliver “Maneu” Galleria d’Art in Majorca presented photographs from the series Esperant and was accompanied by a 65-page catalogue including a text by renowned Catalan critic, Arnau Puig.
All works are 47 x 35 inches unless otherwise specified
Pigment prints mounted on Dibond + Metacrylate