Exhibition
New-York: Erwin Olaf
Berlin
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Porträt 09, 10th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Altes Stadthaus Mitte, 8th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Porträt 08, 10th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Rathaus Schöneberg, 9th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Porträt 10, 10th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Portrait 05, 9 July 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Portrait 01, 22 April 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Clarchens Ballhaus Mitte, 10 July 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Olympia Stadion Westend Selbstporträt, 25th of April, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Erwin Olaf, Berlin, Porträt 09, 10th of July, 2012 © Erwin Olaf, Courtesy Hasted Kraeutler
Last week we covered the Erwin Olaf exhibition in London. Now the same series, Berlin, is on view at the Hasted Kraeutler gallery in New York.
The photographs of Erwin Olaf are intriguing for their preciousness, their sense of detail and their strangeness. Olaf has long worked in his studio with a whole team of designers, but for his new series, Berlin, he used the city as a backdrop, taking inspiration from the cinema; Berlin feels like a tribute to Visconti’s The Damned.
His photographs are disturbing. They may remind some viewers of the sadistic children from Michael Haneke’s White Ribbon. But others will surely see something different. The images are full of visual references.
Sophie Hedtmann
‘Berlin’
by Erwin Olaf
From March 14th to April 27th, 2013
Hasted Kraeutler
537 W 24th St
New York, NY 10011
USA
+1 212-627-0006
Links
http://www.hastedkraeutler.com
http://www.erwinolaf.com
http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/entries/10509/london-erwin-olaf-berlin
Contributors
Sophie Hedtmann