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The urban views of Olivo Barbieri in the Intesa Sanpaolo Art Collections

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Turin - Lingotto Fiere, Oval
Meeting Point Artissima

WHEN

From 1 to 3 November 2024

 

Talk 1 November at 5.30 pm

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For Artissima, Intesa Sanpaolo brings three magnificent urban views by the great photographer Olivo Barbieri (Carpi, 1954) that have recently been added to the Group's art collections to the public's attention.

All three are shots that represent and interpret three metropolises: Rome, Las Vegas and Shanghai, photographed from a helicopter, offering a dizzying bird's-eye view that enhances their architectural forms and urban fabric, observed, as stated by the artist, as “a temporary installation where the centre and the fringe, structures and infrastructures, a fundamental part of our sense of belonging, seen from above, appear as a model, a large scale model, where hierarchical relationships, in terms of space and importance, are re-imagined in a new way”.

Since the late 1970s, Barbieri has systematically investigated the metamorphosis of the territory, of the urban landscape, between the survival of local traditions and the profound transformations brought about by globalisation. His infallible lens has moved between West and East, composing an extraordinary atlas in which different places, near and far, coexist.

“These are low-altitude shots, in which I use a selective focus, questioning a certain inevitably anti-democratic authority of photography” he says. A very personal experimentation, which visitors to the retrospective exhibition, curated by Corrado Benigni and Roberto Koch, which will be dedicated to him by the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin in early 2025, will be able to learn more about.

On this occasion, to better highlight Barbieri's originality and create a stimulating short-circuit between past and present, his photographs are displayed in dialogue with three paintings, also belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo art collections: View of Piazza del Popolo in Rome by Gaspar Van Wittel, Architectural Capriccio with Monuments of Ancient Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini, Meriggio. Factories at Porta Romana by Umberto Boccioni, on display at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, Turin and Milan respectively. In these too, a panoramic aerial view, albeit expressed in different terms, prevails.

 

 

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Olivo Barbieri, the city among memory and imagination - Talk

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with Olivo Barbieri, Corrado Benigni e Roberto Koch 

Friday, November 1 at 5.30 pm at the meeting point of Artissima. The photographer Olivo Barbieri in dialogue with Corrado Benigni and Roberto Koch will touch on the themes of his relationship with cities, the ancient, art history and collecting.

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