OLIVO BARBIERI – THE DOLOMITES PROJECT
2012-02-20The Dolomites Project is Barbieri’ s latest series to examine monumental landscapes from above. As in the Waterfalls Project (2008), and the expansive, on-going site specific series (2003- 2012), the artist is photographing while hovering overhead in a helicopter. In each of these previous projects Barbieri utilized a tilt-shift lens to deftly render spaces of enormous scale to appear as toy-model versions of themselves.
The Dolomites Project, however, utilizes another facet of the artist’s skillful exploitation of photographic folds of perception, bestowing on the images a push/pull play of depth versus flatness through selective coloration of the textured facades of the jagged peaks.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
