TOrino, 20 Feb. (askanews) – A look of the artist on the period in which China has become the power you know todayOr, but also an exhibition-raw on the possibilities of contemporary photography and the evolution of the medium. At the Italy Galleries in Turin is open the exhibition “Other spaces” of Olivo Barbieri, photographer in his “decisive” way on the scene of the present.
“His storytelling mode, his intuitions, the ability to resort to extremely current techniques today well in advance – told Askanews Michele Coppola, director, culture and historical assets of Intesa Sanpaolo – shows how it was really able to Add and offer an opportunity to read and also of pleasantness and pleasantness in a world of photography that felt the need for a break “.
The images are powerful and evocative, ‘strange’ as only good art manages to be. “Olivo – added Antonio Carloni, deputy director of the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin – is the most important experimenter we have in Italy today and probably the photographer who most of all the others brought Italian photography out of national borders”.
The project on China is also a way to reason about the very idea of photographic reality, evident from Barbieri’s work, but, after all, always unattainable. “Reality – said Carloni again – is a flow of information that starts from the observation of what the car in front and then actually becomes what the photographer has in the lead. And Olivo does nothing but become an author in a certain sense who, I resume his words, ‘capitalizes the legacy that has been in 10,000 years of history’, that is, from the caves to 1989 when he went to China “.
The exhibition is a new chapter of the project “The great Italian photography” by Roberto Kochwith which the Intesa Sanpaolo wants to celebrate the great masters of the twentieth century photography of our country. With a precise idea of the role of the Turin museum: “a space for investigation, meeting, reflection – concluded Michele Coppola – on the value that still maintains photography and its role in the contemporary”.
A role that, on the wider scene of art, is increasingly central.
I woman © RESERVED REPRODUCTION