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His works are  striking in their strangeness, their will to provoke, their sense of  solitude and restlessness: they catch glimpses of truth, which reveal  the imperfection and the fictitious nature of an apparently perfect  world.<\/p>\n<p>This rich catalogue represents a journey through the  artist&#8217;s entire production, offering a complete overview of his work:  from the beginning with <em>Chessmen<\/em>, the series that made him  internationally famous, awarded at the Young European Photographer  competition in 1988, up to the recent <em>Palm Springs<\/em> project (2018). The volume includes a critical text by Walter Guadagnini and a conversation with the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Text in English and Italian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious and contemplative work by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, among the most renowned authors of contemporary portraiture. 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