OLIVO BARBIERI
site specific_roma 04
Galeria The Other Way / The Other Way Gallery
Olivo Barbieri (Italy 1954) begins to exhibit his work in 1978. Beginning in the year 1989, he regularly travels to Orient, in particular, to China. In 1993, 1995, and 1997, he takes part in the Biennal in Venice and in numerous other international events devoted to contemporary visual arts. In 1996, he holds a retrospective exhibit of his work at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. Barbieri's images may be viewed in museums and universities in Italy and abroad.
Being always interested in urban mutation and the relationship between reality and virtuality for site specific_roma 04, Olivo Barbieri referred to the concept of avatar: the physical representation of a subject inside a virtual world, so that a whole city can become its own representation. In "site specific_roma 04" the entire city of Rome becomes a temporary installation: structures and buildings, monuments, palaces, neighborhoods. Seen from afar, the city looks like a big model, ruled by motionless Time, our present, lasting identity and the reason of our feeling of belonging. (...)
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