Erwin Olaf: Barbara Portrait: from the series 'Grief' 2007, Lambda Print
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Erwin Olaf
CHINA
BEIJING • Galerie Paris-Beijing • Ongoing
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According to Jonathan Turner, "Amsterdam-based artist Erwin Olaf's recent imagery is based on American aristocracy in the early 1960s. In Grief, a recent series (already on show in Paris), solitary figures brood in tearful silence."
"Grief is a series about the choreography of emotion, and what you can create in the studio," says Erwin Olaf. "The more realistic that much art photography is becoming, the more I try to create an artificial version. Realism in photography can be just as artificial as realism in the world outside. So I wanted to ask the question: how does grief really look? What is the aesthetic of grieving? In my portrait of Grace, how she looks out the window, the way the handkerchief is crumpled in her hand, tells a story. It's the same as when you watch a movie. You might start to cry, even though what you see is fake."
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