Olivo Barbieri
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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. |
| Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861 - 2008 "…the first major exhibition to use visual art as a lens to explore the lure that Coney Island exerted on American culture over a period of 150 years. An extraordinary array of artists viewed Coney Island as a microcosm of the American experience, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the masses, to the closing of Astroland Amusement Park following decades of urban decline." |
Affordable New York traces over a century of affordable housing activism, documenting the ways in which reformers, policy makers, and activists have fought to transform their city. A focus on current and future housing initiatives demonstrates how New Yorkers continue to promote subsidized housing as a way to achieve diversity, neighborhood stability, and social justice.
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.
May 3 - September 13, 2015
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. This exhibition explores the work of twenty-six contemporary artists—such as Sophie Calle (b. 1953), Adam Fuss (b. 1961 ), Vera Lutter (b. 1960), Sally Mann (b. 1951), Christian Marclay (b. 1955), and Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953)—who investigate the complex and resonant relationship of photography to time, memory, and history.Read more.
Work by Lisa Kereszi is included in the show Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 on view now at the Wadsworth Museum of Art in Hartford Connecticut through May 31st, 2015. This multimedia show chronicles the rise and fall of the "World's Greatest Playground" located on the shores of Brooklyn, New York. Kereszi's color photographs from the early 2000s document the final stages of the park's decay through her focused attention to often overlooked details. Read more.
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.
Andrew Moore has been awarded a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his photographic series, Dirt Meridian, recently on view at the gallery. The project centers around the 100th meridian west, the longitudinal line which runs through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and is historically regarded as the geographic beginning of the American West.
A solo exhibition of Andrew Moore's work in Russia and Detroit, entitled East/West, is on display at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA through February 26, 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.
Lisa Kereszi's exhibition, Joe's Junk Yard & Other American Dreams, curated by Rebecca Soderhold, is on display through October 11 at Drew University's Korn Gallery.
Work by David Hilliard and Rachel Perry is included in Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, on view through April 14, 2013. The exhibition presents work of contemporary artists who use the grocery store and consumption as their subject and will travel the United States following its Ulrich debut.
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore is on view currently at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. through February 18, 2013. The exhibition was organized by the Akron Art Museum and has previously traveled to the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.
On Tuesday, October 9, Andrew Moore will lecture at SVA Theater with poet Philip Levine, the 2011-2012 Poet Laureate of the United States. A Detroit native, Levine wrote the introduction to Moore's book, Detroit Disassembled.
On Wednesday, October 10, 6 – 8 p.m., Yancey Richardson Gallery hosts a book signing of Moore's his new lavishly-scaled monograph, Cuba.
Moore's traveling museum show, Detroit Disassembled, is on view at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., through February 18, 2013.
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.
Lisa Kereszi's solo exhibition, The Party's Over, will open at Yancey Richardson Gallery on May 24, 2012. Her work is currently on display in Beyond Words: Photography in the New Yorker, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China from April 15 – June 10, 2012. Additionally, Kereszi's 4th book, Joe's Junk Yard, will be published by Damiani this Fall, and distributed by DAP. A solo exhibit, Joe's Junk Yard, will be on display at Metronom in Modena, Italy from September 14-16 as part of the Festival Filosofia.
Work by Andrew Moore is featured in the photographic survey An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum through May 13, 2012. Moore's work is also featured in Structuring Nature, on display at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery in the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas from May 3 – June 30, 2012. Additionally, the artist's new book, Cuba: Photographs by Andrew Moore (1998-2012), will be released in August.
Works by David Hilliard will feature in the upcoming exhibition Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Teutloff Collection in Dresden, Germany, from September 21, 2012 – April 7, 2013. Hilliard's work was recently in Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography at the Aperture Foundation Gallery. The exhibition was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog published by MOCA and produced by Aperture Foundation.
Mitch Epstein recently collaborated with cellist Erik Friedlander on a limited edition LP based on music composed for a presentation Epstein made last summer at the Arles Photography Festival. Additionally, Epstein and Tate Museum curator Simon Baker will discuss Epstein's photography as a part of the Prix Pictet Conversations on Photography, at Whitechapel Gallery in London on Saturday, May 12 at 4:30 pm.
Works by Andrew Moore and Hellen van Meene are featured in the upcoming exhibition, An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum from February 19 – May 13. The museum's photographic survey includes Moore, van Meene, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Larry Sultan, among many others.
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.
Mitch Epstein's acclaimed series American Power is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland through November 20. Epstein was awarded the prestigious Prix Pictet Photography Prize for American Power, a series that examines the production and consumption of energy in the United States and its impact on society and the American landscape.
Andrew Moore's solo exhibition - Detroit Disassembled - is on display at the Queens Museum of Art through January 15, 2012. The exhibition features over thirty large-scale photos examining the current state of the Motor City, with a selection of photos from previous bodies of work hanging the museum's mezzanine. Additionally, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired three works, one each from Moore's major series': Detroit, Cuba, and Russia.
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.
Mitch Epstein's acclaimed series American Power is currently on display in Paris at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, through July 24, and is also included in New Documentary Forms at the Tate Modern in London, through March 31, 2012.
Andrew Moore's solo show - Detroit Disassembled - travels to the Queens Museum of Art this fall. The show opens August 28 and runs through January 15, 2012. Additionally, the Colby Museum of Art is presenting their extensive holdings of Moore's Detroit series in an exhibition scheduled to coincide with their show American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, which opened July 9.
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.
Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Andrew Moore, Alex Prager, and Victoria Sambunaris are all included in People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape, a group exhibition at Davidson College, North Carolina, on view through March 6, 2011.
Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky and Hellen van Meene are all included in Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, a group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, on display through June 19, 2011. The exhibition also features works by Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Vik Muniz, and Richard Misrach, among others.
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.
Andrew Moore's photograph Model-T Headquarters was selected as the cover image for the January issue of Art in America. The photograph, from Moore's Detroit series, accompanies the issue's cover story, "End Times Photography" by Max Kozloff.
In Fall 2011, Moore's solo museum show, Detroit Disassembled, will travel from the Akron Art Museum to the Queens Museum of Art.
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.
Photographs by gallery artists Mitch Epstein, Alex Prager, and Bertien van Manen are currently on display in Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, open through January 2, 2011.
Allure, Lisa Kereszi's solo show at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery opens September 30th. The artist will be present the evening of the opening for a gallery talk.
Kereszi is also participating in Group Shows at Biblioteca Civica d'Arte Luigi Poletti during September, at Showtime Show House (Cassa, Gramercy Park, NYC) through October 22nd, at Gallery Out of Place (4-14-2 3F Minamiazabu Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) through October, and at Pool Gallery in Berlin from Nov. 19- Jan. 15, 2011.
Andrew Moore's photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut there before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation's industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans.
David Hilliard was selected as the Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence for Winter/Spring 2010. Begun in 1932, the Artist-in-Residence Program hosts three artists of distinction per year, chosen by a Studio Art faculty committee. An exhibition of Hilliard's work is on display in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery through May 2, 2010.
Epstein's latest project tackles one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what and who powers America? American Power is Epstein's portrait of early twenty-first-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible and sustainable future.
Mitch Epstein's works Dad, Hampton Ponds III, 2003 and Apartment 304, 398 Main Street, 2001 were recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum are on now on exhibit at the museum in Extended Family: Contemporary Connections. Steidl has also recently released Epstein's 9th monograph, American Power.
Lisa Kereszi's monograph Fun and Games will be released in September 2009 by Nazraeli Press. Titled after the name of a Jersey Shore arcade and the Ancient Roman wrestling phrase, "It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye," the book documents the artist's self-described obsession with what is hidden behind the facades of strip clubs, haunted houses and nightclubs and other places of fantasy and entertainment.
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.
Victoria Sambunaris and Christian Patterson have been nominated for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer. Lisa Kereszi was the 2005 recipient.
