Erwin Olaf

FLATLAND GALLERY
AND GALLERY MAGDA DANYSZ PRESENT
GRIEF : SOLO SHOW
5 APRIL - 17 MAY 2008

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.