Olivo Barbieri
Capri #7, 2013. 65 x 85 inch archival pigment print. Edition of 6.
Site Specific, CATANIA 09 #2, 2009. 65 x 85 inch archival pigment print. Edition of 6.
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| IMMAGINI 1978 - 2014 A major retrospective that frames, through six sections and over 70 works, the diverse themes or areas of research around which Olivo Barbieri has developed his artistic work. Photographs and films illustrate the photographer's career from the late 1970s to the present. |
RETROSPECTIVE AT MAXXI, ROME
May 28th - October 11th, 2015.
A major retrospective that frames, through six sections and over 70 works, the diverse themes or areas of research around which Olivo Barbieri has developed his artistic work. Photographs and films illustrate the photographer's career from the late 1970s to the present. Read more.
OLIVO BARBIERI, FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, REGGIO EMILIA
May 15 - July 26, 2015
Gathered from his travels through Europe, Japan, China, Cairo, and the US, the series ERSATZ LIGHTS represents Barbieri's night photography from the 1980s until now.
Olivo Barbieri will participate in the panel Photography and the City at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at University of British Columbia on November 1 from 1-5pm. The panel will be moderated by ICP curator Christopher Phillips and include Barbieri, Greg Girard, Leo Rubinfien, and Guy Tillim.
Jitka Hanzlova and Olivo Barbieri are included in 2004–2014: The Museum of Contemporary Photography's ten years: works and projects, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of the museum, part of the Triennale di Milano. On view from July 3 - September 10, 2014.
Works from Olivo Barbieri's Stadi series are included in the exhibition Calcio d'inizio at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebauden in Torino, Italy, through February 23, 2014.
Work by Olivo Barbieri is included in the group exhibition NEON: La Materia Luminosa dell'Arte at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, on display through November 4, 2012. Co-organized with Paris' Maison Rouge, the exhibition explores the concept of light and energy in the language of art.
Work by Olivo Barbieri will be exhibited in a group show of Italian photograhers at Hunter College, opening February 3. The exhibition, Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present, explores marginalized elements of the industrial Italian landscape. The exhibition is on view at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College through April 28, 2012.
Gallery artists Olivo Barbieri, Mitch Epstein, and Victoria Sambunaris are included in The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, opening September 24th and running through January 8, 2012.
Olivo Barbieri's site specific_CHICAGO 10 series is on display at the Venice Biennale (Italian Pavilion), through November 27. This is the third showing of the artist's work at the Biennale. Barbieri's new series The Dolomites Project was the subject of a solo show this spring at the Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Italy.
Works from Olivo Barbieri's site specific_MONTREAL 04, and site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 will be on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in the upcoming exhibition ParaDesign, on view from February 25th to June 19, 2011.
Olivo Barbieri will open an exhibition of new work at the Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto on February 12 – May 1, 2011. The exhibition will feature a selection of images from Barbieri's DOLOMITES PROJECT 2010, as well as a film the artist made in that mountainous region of Northern Italy.
Olivo Barbieri's spectacular ten panel 22 foot photograph "Shanghai, China" will be featured in the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago's upcoming exhibition Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture on view September 25 - December 23, 2009.