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Erwin Olaf Retrospective 2000-2010
by Art Statements
Location: Art Statements Gallery
Artist(s): Erwin OLAF
Date: 18 Jun - 31 Jul 2012

Art Statements is delighted to invite you to discover their new gallery space in Hong Kong through a retrospective of photography from 2000 to 2010 by Dutch contemporary artist Erwin Olaf.

Visits are by appointment only; to arrange a time to see the exhibition, please call or email the gallery.

About the artist

Born in 1959 in Hilversum (the Netherlands), lives in Amsterdam. Erwin Olaf's art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the overlooked, that typically resist easy documentation. Olaf's trademark is to address social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions in a highly stylized and cunning mode of image making. With his razor-sharp aesthetic intuition, Olaf purposely conceals his themes, so that the viewer has to accent the initial concealment in Olaf's photo series. Yet in the end, his conventional style never misses to deliver dramatic visual and emotional impact. By taking care of the scenic and lighting design, and the utmost perfect composition in his typical, immaculate 'Olafian' way, together with his passion for flawlessly conceiving scenarios, Olaf vividly captures the essence of contemporary life.

Mixing photojournalism with studio photography, Olaf emerged on the international art scene in 1988, when his series Chessmen was awarded the first prize in the Young European Photography competition. This award was followed by an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany in the same year. Deliberately disturbing and intended to raise awareness, Olaf committed himself in his earlier work on the subject of social exclusion in which he explored issues of class, race, sexual taste, beliefs, habits and grace. In his recent series Rain (2004), Hope (2005), Grief (2007) and Fall (2008) Olaf challenges the notion of domestic bliss. Dusk (20009) and Dawn (2010) show how culture can become repression, despite a beautiful appearance. A similar disengagement takes place in Olaf's Hotel (2010) series in which he explores the subtle range of detached melancholic emotions in dimly-lit exquisitely furnished 1950s hotel rooms.

Awards

Erwin Olaf won numerous international art and media prizes, ssh as Photographer of the Year in the International Colour Awards in 2006, and Kunstbeeld magazine's Artist of the Year of the Netherlands in 2007. Recently he received a Lucie Award for his entire oeuvre.

Exhibitions

Erwin Olaf has had numerous important group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including George Eastman House, Rochester, USA; Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Kunsthalle, Winterthur, Switzerland and the Museum of the City of New York, New York. Solo exhibitions include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Bilbao Art Centre, Bilbao, Spain; Groninger Museum, Groningen; MonteVideo, Amsterdam; Modern Art Gallery of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; The Hague Mueum of Photography, The Hague; Photo Museum Antwerp, Antwerp; Institud Neerlandais, Paris; Domus Artium, Salamanca; Hermitage, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. His work is part of the collections of Gemeentemusum, The Hague; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Groninger Museum, Groningen; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; FNAC Collection, Paris; CaldicCollection, Rotterdam; Rosenblum Collection, Paris; Orefa Collection, Paris.

 

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