Olivo Barbieri

Olivo Barbieri was born in 1954 in Carpi (Modena), Italy. He is considered one of the most important contemporary Italian artists. Barbieri creates imaginative landscapes and cityscapes, challenging the viewer’s perception of reality and creating seemingly artificial viewpoints of our mundane surroundings. Utilising the technique of selective focusing, Barbieri suspends himself out of a helicopter 200 – 500 feet in the air over his subject. The result is a composition both familiar and unreal, which distorts reality and recreates the landscape into an artistic installation of Barbieri’s conception. Works by Olivo Barbieri are included in public and private collections worldwide, as well as museum collections in Europe and the United States, including: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; and GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin.