NYAB Event - Olivo Barbieri "Site Specific

Olivo Barbieri "Site Specific_NEW YORK CITY 07"

Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Since 2004, Barbieri has been developing a series of large-scale aerial photographs on major sites in Rome, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Montreal, Los Angeles, Amman, Florence, Milan, and New York. Utilizing a large format camera with a tilt and shift lens, Barbieri deftly renders the grand scale of these major metropolises to mere models of themselves. His bird’s eye perspectives on some of mankind’s greatest architectural achievements have a mesmerizing quality, simultaneously evocative of our infinitesimal size as individuals yet illuminating of the majesty of our civilization’s progress as a whole.
New York’s contemporary urban landscape is the charismatic and diverse subject of Barbieri’s site specific_NEW YORK CITY 07 exhibition. From Barbieri’s vantage, sunbathers at Central Park’s Sheep’s Meadow become a collection of color field swaths, flowers dotting the great green lawn. The landmark Flat Iron Building reveals its iconic wedge shape, nestled on its own island splitting Broadway and 5th Avenue. The historic Wonder Wheel and its surrounding carnival games at Coney Island are a jumble of circles and curlicues, colorful forms barely resembling the famous boardwalk amusement park.