Ideat 07
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Description
First issued in 2015 and rarely available still life photograph by the globally accalimed photographer, Erwin Olaf.
Limited Edition 5/12
A still life in essence, this work is as much a tribute to art history as it is to design, as it features two objects by great designers: the Scarab Vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez and the Bell Table by Sebastian Herkner.
This luxurious composition contrasts with the decaying wall in the background while reinforcing the fragility and decay of all things that the memento mori invokes. Photographed in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where Camille Claudel was interned, the series stages the Chabrolian paradox between splendor and destruction, revealing the artist's social questionings.
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Artist
Born in 1959 in Hilversum (Netherlands), Erwin Olaf is a photographer who lives and works in Amsterdam. His work borrows both the codes of photojournalism and fashion photography, which he masters perfectly.
In 1988, the photographer was awarded the Young European Photographer prize for his Chessmen series, marking his entry on the international scene. Preferring to work in series, the artist tells tragic or sordid stories and constructs them through strong contrasts between the subjects photographed, the lights and the objects.
His work has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions around the world, notably at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Bilbao Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow.
Dimensions
| Width | 60 |
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| Height | 77 |
