Oliver Kink (Los Gatos, CA) focused his attention on the cultural diversity and aesthetic of disappearance. In the permanent cultural changes on a global level, he is documenting the impact of the transition and modernization in China and Asian culture on the local and personal level.
The nucleus and heart of his interest are the complexity of existence that survives on the social, spiritual and visual level in our society and culture. He portrayed the Chinese people with affection and humanity and recalled truly epic descriptions of vanishing authentic life in China. His deep sense of the fragility of the Chinese world and traditional way of life was providing knowledge about the fragility of life and heritage in general. With the sustained high level of anthropological and historical skill and universality of his artistic concept, Klink reaches the spiritual connection with the Chinese people and their costumes. Clear vintage composition and the purity of Klink’s new modernism underlined the common need for humanity and fragility of human existence. In his effort to demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind, a tradition, not the traditionalism becomes the main object of his photography.
The main thing about Oliver Klink ‘storytelling of consequences’ is the fact that his basic visual researching became a strong message about the relevance of heritage, old customs, and rituals. He accomplished his mission by reaching the connection between different cultures and people by underlining the quality of being different and unique.
– Drazenka Jalsic Ernecic (Croatia) senior curator
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