Désirée Dolron

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Dutch Photographer | Born: 1963

D�sir�e Dolron is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. Her oeuvre ranges from documentary photography and still lifes to portraiture and film.Throughout her career, Dolron has been investigating themes such as the passing of time, the relation between finite and transcendent and the complexity and impermanence of the human condition.

Dolron was awarded the 1996 Laureate Prix de Rome (Amsterdam, NL). Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Collection H&F in Barcelona, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, la Collection Neuflize Vie in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

D�sir�e Dolron lives and works in Amsterdam.

Source: desireedolron.com

The meticulous attention to production details characterizes her body of work, and elements such as sound (or its absence �silence) are often used as important tools of narration, helping the viewer to enter into the conceptual depth of Dolron�s works. Both moving and still images are composed by the artist and manage to recreate a reality that is a-temporal, undefined yet extremely present.

Desir�e Dolron (1963 Haarlem, NL) was awarded the 1996 Laureate Prix de Rome (Amsterdam, NL), and her work is part of major international collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (US), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a in Madrid (SP), the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (NL), and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK).

Source: GRIMM Gallery

Gallery:

GRIMM Gallery

Website:

www.desireedolron.com

Selected Work:

Selected Books:

Desir�e Dolron - Xteriors 2001-2015

Author: Desir�e Dolron

Publisher: Raven Publishers

Year: 2017 - Pages: 112

Desir�e Dolron, Reputed to be one of the most successful Dutch photographers in the world today, recently completed her series 'Xteriors' (2001 - 2015). The book, designed by Irma Boom Office, unites all works from this project for the first time. The intentionality of Dolron's approach is palpable; every decision regarding technique and form is meticulously considered in the pictorial construction of these darkly introverted and strangely timeless photographs. The models inhabit a tranquil and withdrawn realm of near-perfect compositions. Beautifully crafted in a hybridised visual language that blurs the traditional disciplinary boundaries between painting and photography, analogue, and digital. With texts by Wim Pijbes and Charlotte Cotton.

Desir�e Dolron

Author: Desir�e Dolron

Publisher: Lanoo Books

Year: 2005 - Pages: 156

The Dutch photographer Desiree Dolron (1963) is one of the most successful artists of her generation. This first retrospective book on her art contains her four most important photo series in the period 1990-2005: the weighty series of portraits Gaze, the report Exaltation on religious gatherings, among other places in India and Pakistan, the mysterious narrative of Xteriors and lastly Te di todos mis suenos, Dolron’s both alluring and disconcerting impressions of contemporary Cuba. The series are prefaced by an essay by Charlotte Cotton (Head of Programming of The Photographers’ Gallery in London) and also includes an interview with the artist herself conducted by Wim van Sinderen (Senior Curator of The Hague Museum of Photography).

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