Self Portraits 50 years I wish, I am, I will be
Erwin Olaf
Photography - 100 x 225 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 88.6 x 2 inch
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Paradise Portraits (portfolio of 8),
2001
Erwin Olaf
Photography : C-print
18 x 13.5 x 2 cm 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inch
$5,850
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Artwork location: France
The 'Paradise' series was taken as an ode to Amsterdam's most renowned nightclub Club Paradiso. The shoot took place at the club's New Year's Eve party in 2000 which was circus themed. In these celebratory and extravagant images, Olaf chose to play along with the fantasy that comes from a night of festivities and photograph different sections of the club.
The portraits feature close-up shots of individual night club goers. By focusing solely on their faces, Olaf manages to break the illusion of indulgence and mystique that features in the series. The individuals' facial expressions range from exaggerated smiles to screams, with sweaty or tearful faces and sometimes consternation. In displaying the aftermath of the wild night, Olaf simultaneously breaks and creates the illusion of joy and exhilaration, leading the onlooker to question what is real and what is not.
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Erwin Olaf was a Dutch photographer known for his highly stylized, daring, and often provocative work addressing social issues and taboos. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Johannes Vermeer Award (2011), a Lucie Award (2008), and Photographer of the Year in the International Color Awards (2006). Among other accolades, Olaf received the commission to design the new national side of the Dutch Euro, launched in 2013. In 2008 and 2014, Aperture published volumes one and two of Olaf's self-titled monographs. Erwin Olaf: I Am was published by Aperture in 2019 to accompany the most extensive retrospective of his work to date, a multiple-venue show that encompassed installations at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; and Fotomuseum Den Haag.
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