Imitation decors with muted colours, reminding the viewer of bygone post-war interiors, and technicolour films form the backdrop for a collection of icy and solitary figures, fixed in time as a series of eerie advertisements for loneliness. The two series of works presented here, a total of 20 photographs all counted, represent a new ambitious direction for this Dutch photographer.

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Arts & Photography

Erwin Olaf

Photography & Video

Flatland

Erwin Olaf, one of the best know and most over-the-top Dutch photographers of today--think David LaChapelle crossed with Playboy)--lives a passionate, lusty affair with life, enjoying it to the fullest extent, a true gastronome of the art of living. His oeuvre stands as a manifestation of this very passion and of his very genuine engagement with his subjects. Over the last 25 years, he has evolved from a photographer who captures reality to a director who creates it; either way, the depicted reality is one filled with humor, imagination, sexuality, and exuberance, raising issues of freedom, beauty, loneliness, and difference. A master who can generate his own, perverse world through autonomous photographic series, grandiose parties, and film projects alike, he is also hypercritical, an artist from whom nothing escapes. Thus his fictions are convincing, his images full of bygone days, fairytales, and dreams, populated by historical figures, elves, dwarves, lunati!  cs, and creatures that defy easy description.      Essays by William Elia, Jonathan Turner and Ruud Schenk. ~Foreword by Kees van Twist.

Erwin Olaf: Silver, Second Edition

<p>Erwin Olaf s art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the overlooked, that typically resists easy documentation. Olaf s trademark is to address social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions in a highly stylized and cunning mode of image making. Alongside new and unpublished work, this book shows an overview of all the personal work that Olaf made during the past 25 years.</p>

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Erwin Olaf - Rain/Hope

Erwin Olaf: Silver, Second Edition

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