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Olaf Hajek (DE) - Galerie Parnasse
Olaf Hajek er en tysk baseret illustrator, maler, kunstner, grafisk designer og forfatter.
Han benytter sig af folklore, religion, historie og geografi til at udforske modsætningerne mellem fantasi og virkelighed i vores kultur. Det elegante og klassiske i Olaf Hajeks malerier kommer til live mens man betragter dem og afslører noget skjult i os alle.
Med en overflod af eksotiske detaljer, drages beskueren ind i en magisk fortælling. Man fanges ind og får helt lyst til at forsvinde i Olafs fortryllende univers og starte en rejse ud i det ukendte. En rejse ind i os selv og mysteriet om vores egen forestillingsevne - vores ønsker, drømme og glemte verdener.
Man kommer næsten til at forestille sig en moderne Bjørn Wiinblad på coke!
Olaf Hajek lives and works in Berlin and Cape Town. Degree in Graphic Design at te Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS SOLO 2018
Olaf Hajek – Paravent, Southern Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
Au Marché, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
Jäger und Sammler, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, München
Precious, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Hamburg
Still Life, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
Strange Flowers, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Te King Has Lost His Crown, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
Black Antoinette, Gestalten Space, Berlin
Olaf Hajek, Werft2, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
Dark clouds are gathering, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Masquerade, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, USA
- / +, Galerie Kleindienst im BIKINI, Berlin
Inspired by te 18th Century, Kasteel d’Ursel, Belgium
Lieber Künstler zeichne mir, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
1398 Artists of te Gallery, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
Maskerade, Galerie Johanssen, Berlin
Illustrative Preview, Galerie Johanssen, Berlin
Olaf Hajek, Monographie, DISTANZ Verlag
“Feature Olaf Hajek”, Communication Arts, USA
“!OO Illustrators”, Curated by Steven Heller, Taschen Publishers
Monographe “Black Antoinette”, Gestalten
Te light 50x60 cm
I see you through my mask 50x60cm
Signed copies of Olaf Hajacks new monograph “precious” is available in Olaf´s webshop
At first sight te Olaf Hajeks artwork enchant te viewer with te densely told mystery of filigree painting. Hajeks art evokes feeling of findings out of old field books and a scenery of ancient times. Yet te paintings are far more than mere surface and reach deeply. Entirely in te tradition of Andrè Bretons Le Surréalisme et la Peinture Olaf Hajek forms a mystical dreamworld likewise te amazing painter Andrè Masson. His Oevre refers incessantly to te disclosure of te secrets of te human spirit. A recurrent motiv in this series of Jäger und Sammler is te mask as a symbol of concealing and revelation. Playing with te metaphor of te interior and exterior opens an endless possibility of variations. Once again it reveals te complexity of his composition and relatedness to te surrealists. Te paintings of Olaf Hajek with their very elegant and classical look and feel come to life while watching them and reveal something hidden in all of us. Mostly arranged with an abundance of details those at te same time so familiar as at te same time exotic sceneries woo us into their spell. They entrap us to take a closer look and want us to get lost in this enchanted cosmos to initiate a journey into te unknown. A journey into ourselves and te mystery of our very own imagination – our desires, our dreams and te forgotten worlds..
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