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Erwin Olaf
Victoria in Scene (from the series Grief), 2007
A young woman in a diffusely lit hotel room turns her 1960s coiffed head briefly to the left. We see her just before something very important is about to happen – as in the scenes painted by Johannes Vermeer. With his deliberately artificial photograph, Erwin Olaf is referencing a picture of a const
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ructed key scene from a movie. Olaf consciously drew inspiration for these portraits from pastel-coloured, melodramatic feature films by Douglas Sirk in particular, who himself was looking at genre painting.
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Erwin Olaf
Title
Victoria in Scene (from the series Grief)
Year
2007
Technique
C-print photograph
Size
100 x 178 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Photograph
Copyright
© S.A. den Hartog [Erwin Olaf]
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