From the first Erwin Olaf’s solo exhibition in the Minimum Space gallery, still then in its location in Murcia, to this that makes the fifth and fourth at its headquarters in Madrid, fifteen years have passed. At this time, he has also participated with us in three group exhibitions, Art & Fashion No. 1 and the commemoration of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the gallery and he has been present in our booth at numerous international art fairs, and each of these occasions we have tried to show his latest productions, presenting new works that he has just concluded.
Since that first meeting in November 1999 highlighted the series presented -Mature was the last - the role of color that has characterized much of the work of the artist, although it has evolved over time in a bright use -Royal Blood- sometimes almost hurtful _Paradise Rouge-, a quieter use, a more intimate and introspective -Grief, Hotel, Keyhole, Berlin- sometimes falsely played as monochrome -Dusk, Dawn-
But before that first encounter with our gallery Erwin Olaf he had a previous work done in pure black and white, perhaps not sufficiently known and overshadowed for many by the brilliance of his later works, but already well established and personal, in which the most defining features of his work are present and where it can be traced the seeds of many of his most characteristic later series.
Are these early works in black and white that we never expose our previous appointments with the artist which we wanted to bail now that, with the perspective that gives the time, and considering his later work, we can evaluate them in exact measure.
Erwin Olaf (Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1959), lives and works in Amsterdam. He has had solo exhibitions, among others, Fodor Museum in Amsterdam (1990), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992), Frankfurter Kunst Verein Frankfurt (1993), Kunsthal in Rotterdam (1993) Fotofestival Naarden (1995), Ludwig Museum in Cologne (1998), Museum of Modern Art in Hasselt (2001), D'Arte Provincia di Nuoro Museum (2002), Museum Sztuki Lodz (2003), Groninger Museum, Groninger (2003), Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna (2005 ), Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2005), Australian Centre of Photography in Sideney (2005), The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague (2008), South Eastern Centre for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem (2008), Photo Museum Antwerp in Antwerp (2009) ... and in an important group exhibitions.
His work is represented in some of the most prominent museums of public and private collections worldwide.
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