Talk with Erwin Olaf

As part of the exhibition Erwin Olaf: Forty Years of Creation, the artist will offer a conversation via Zoom about his artistic career and creative process through Zoom. Meeting ID: 811 775 9244. In collaboration with CENTRO.

“He started his career as an advertising photographer and knows the other side of the scene. Issues of power, the place of women in society, and loneliness continue to be entry points into her work. If his early subversive works made him known to an expert audience, his themes of feminine sophistication, male nudes, and portraits of children opened the doors to wider recognition.

For an ad campaign, he had fun revisiting Johannes Vermeer's iconic painting "Girl with the Pearl Earring" by having the model wear a huge wool hat, similar to the one worn by Jamaicans who hide their dreadlocks. ”
- Beatrice Andrieux