Erwin Olaf

  MOULINS - Depuis un siècle les grands couturiers ne cessent de sublimer sur scène les créations des chorégraphes. Coco Chanel et les ballets russes, Gianni Versace et Maurice Béjart, Christian Lacroix puis Balmain par Olivier Rousteing avec le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Issey Miyake et William Forsythe, les exemples sont aussi nombreux que prestigieux. Avec "Couturiers de la danse", le Centre national du costume de scène rend hommage à ces prestigieuses collaborations et présente pour la première fois dans ses espaces une... [Lire la suite]

PARIS - Rares sont les figures historiques qui ont connu un tel foisonnement de représentations : c’est le cas de Marie-Antoinette, de son vivant, puis surtout après sa mort, le 16 octobre 1793. Aujourd’hui, la reine, devenue icône, reste au centre de la culture populaire des images. À travers près de 200 œuvres, objets d’art et archives patrimoniales et contemporaines, interviews inédites, extraits de films, accessoires de mode, l’exposition illustrera les multiples représentations de Marie-Antoinette et mettra en lumière tant... [Lire la suite]

  Erwin Olaf, Grief series - Irene Portrait, 2007. Chromogenic print, 52 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (133 x 100 cm.) Edition of 10. LONDON.- In celebration of Erwin Olaf’s 60th year and long collaboration with the gallery, Hamiltons is presenting photographs of women from across Olaf’s career. Hamiltons Gallery owner Tim Jefferies has selected these works from Olaf’s oeuvre of 40 years, comprising photographs from Chessmen (1987-88), Squares (1983-2018), Blacks (1990), Mature (1999), Fashion Victims... [Lire la suite]

Erwin Olaf and Taco Dibbits. Photo: Olivier Middendorp. AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has been a major source of inspiration for Erwin Olaf since his early youth, with Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Breitner and other Dutch artists being hugely influential on his work. To mark the transfer of his core collection the Rijksmuseum is staging the exhibition 12 x Erwin Olaf, in which Olaf places his photographs in dialogue with Dutch painting. This is the first time that his work is being displayed alongside that of his great... [Lire la suite]

Erwin Olaf, Palm Springs, The Family Visit, Portrait #1 (The Niece), 2018, digital C-print © Erwin Olaf. Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London / Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York THE HAGUE.- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography are honouring one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers, Erwin Olaf (b. 1959), with a double exhibition. Olaf, whose recent portraits of the royal family drew widespread admiration, will turn sixty this year – a good moment to stage a major retrospective. The Hague Museum of... [Lire la suite]

Erwin Olaf & Taco Dibbits. Photo: Olivier Middendorp AMSTERDAM.- The photographer Erwin Olaf this week donated to the Rijksmuseum his core collection, the fully representative range of work spanning his entire career. The Rijksmuseum will be the recipient of a total of 500 objects, comprising prints, portfolios, videos, magazines, books and posters. The vast majority are donations; 60 photographs and three videos have been acquired with the support of the BankGiro Loterij. Taco Dibbits, director of the... [Lire la suite]

Erwin Olaf, Shanghai: Hangpu - The Journey (2017), archival print, 60,5 x 80,4 cm. Photo: Courtesy Wagner + Partner. BERLIN.- Wagner + Partner announced the opening of its new premises with the launch of the thematic exhibition, Die Dauer des Moments (The Moment’s Duration). As a crack in time, the “moment”, possesses unique qualities - it is exciting, unbearable, poetic, unpredictable … and? it can also be instantaneously brief. Since its inception, photography has harnessed not only light but also the... [Lire la suite]

Erwin Olaf, Still Life © Erwin Olaf  

Erwin Olaf, Still Life (Gueuze attributes), 2011. Photo Kodak Endura Paper. © Museum De Lakenhal Erwin Olaf, Still Life (Spanish Abundance, Scarcity Leiden), 2011 © Erwin Olaf

 Erwin Olaf, Music Lesson 01 © Bank of Switzerland Erwin Olaf, Music Lesson 02 © Bank of Switzerland  Erwin Olaf, Violin Player © Bank of Switzerland Erwin Olaf, Couple Drinking © Bank of Switzerland Erwin Olaf, Boy with Flute © Bank of Switzerland   Erwin Olaf, Old Violin © Bank of Switzerland Erwin Olaf, Vanitas © Bank of Switzerland Erwin Olaf, Still life with wiolin © Bank of Switzerland