“With the series Stadiums 1999 and India 1999, I began to realize partially blurred images.
I took this decision because I was tired of the alleged democratic definition of photography. I wanted to be able to decide which is the point of interest within the image, just as with the written page where you can decide where to start reading. What happened though was that I found myself in front of a representation of a world on a small scale, a plastic model. So I decided to find out what I ‘saw’ if I had moved away from the ground lifting the point of view upwards.
In 2003 I began a series, called site specific_, a study on the shape of the contemporary city. By reading the reality as if it were a plastic model, in the planning stage, we have the opportunity to question it.
In 2008-2009, I have almost completely abandoned the research with the use of the selective focus. I decided to go further back, starting once again from the rendering and the drawing. In 2013, the project is almost finished and the cities represented are over forty.
Olivo Barbieri
Olivo Barbieri was born in Carpi in 1954. He began to exhibit in 1978. His research initially focused on artificial lighting in European and Oriental cities.
Since 1989 he regularly travelled in the East, especially in China.
In 1996, the Museum Folkwang of Essen, Germany, dedicated him a retrospective.
In 2003 he began the project site specific_ (both photographs and films) which involved more than forty cities around the world, including Rome, Turin, Naples, Genoa, Catania, Florence, Montreal, Amman, Shanghai, Seville, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, Mexico City, Istanbul, Tel Aviv.
In 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2011 he took part in the Venice Biennale.
In 2003 his works were exhibited in Strangers, the first Triennial of Photography and Video organized in New York by the ICP (International Center of Photography).
In 2011, he presented the Dolomites Project 2010 at the MART museum of Rovereto.
He exhibited his works in the major museums, institutions and international festivals, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sundance Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern and the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis.
Several books and catalogues with the artist’s work were published and his works are exhibited in museums and both public and private art collections in Europe and the United States.
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