Erwin Olaf
dal 4/4/2008 al 16/5/2008
Segnalato da
4/4/2008
Erwin Olaf
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
His recent imagery is based on American aristocracy in the early 1960s. It blends journalistic details with staged emotions. In "Grief", Olaf's latest series currently on show, solitary figures brood in tearful silence, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope and joy were all lost.
Galerie Magda Danysz & Flatland Paris presents
Worldwide famous photographer Erwin Olaf who is in the most prestigious collections around the world including Ludwig Museum, Groninger Museum, Art+Public and the Margulieshas exhibited in numerous museums as the Museum of modern art in Moscou, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Toronto MOCCA or the MEP in Paris.
In his most recent series, Grief, it is as if "everything stops before the music starts"
As Jonathan Turner puts it "In his portrait photographs Amsterdam-based artist Erwin Olaf plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice. His recent imagery is based on American aristocracy in the early 1960s. It blends journalistic details with staged emotions. In Grief, Olaf's latest series currently on show, solitary figures brood in tearful silence, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope and joy were all lost. Nothing is as it seems and in Erwin's recreated world, nothing is real."
"Grief is a series about the choreography of emotion, and what you can create in the studio," says Erwin Olaf.
"In Erwin Olaf's latest series 'Grief' (2007) he portrais the unhappy, private lives of beautiful, affluent women, evoking 1960s America shortly after John F Kennedy's assassination. Olaf compares the worldwide Grief that ensued to that which followed September 11, 2001. What accentuates the series' poignancy is the contrast between the charmed, external appearance of the women's lives and their internal sense of desolation."
Anna Samson for Eyemazing Magazine
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