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"We Are Here! We Are Here! We Are Here!"
Olivo Barbieri is an artist from Italy who lives and works in Milan. His work 'focuses' on architecture and urban environments, industrial /post-industrial landscapes, transportation infrastructure and stuff like that. Barbieri takes aerial photographs using a tilt-shift lens, and that produces the effect of making the very large look very small. A cityscape will look like a model of a city. Cars look like model cars. People look like scalar figures. His work has an instant 'cool' factor, because you as the viewer have that special moment when you realize...it's not so small at all! An accessible gimmick like this in the art world is enough to get you some props at the local biennale, but I think this work is not so easily dismissed. I think the images are really beautiful and I would like to use this technique myself for architectural projects. A friend of mine said that he thought they 'looked like someone's memory'. I think that might be because the images take a huge public space and make it intimate and personal - a little distorted and saturated. Not sure. They are quite beautiful though, compositionally speaking, and even after the initial "Oh, right", I still keep staring.
Top Left: Site Specific New York, Above: Site Specific Las Vegas 05, Site Specific Las Vegas.
Olivo Barbieri is an artist from Italy who lives and works in Milan. His work 'focuses' on architecture and urban environments, industrial /post-industrial landscapes, transportation infrastructure and stuff like that. Barbieri takes aerial photographs using a tilt-shift lens, and that produces the effect of making the very large look very small. A cityscape will look like a model of a city. Cars look like model cars. People look like scalar figures. His work has an instant 'cool' factor, because you as the viewer have that special moment when you realize...it's not so small at all! An accessible gimmick like this in the art world is enough to get you some props at the local biennale, but I think this work is not so easily dismissed. I think the images are really beautiful and I would like to use this technique myself for architectural projects. A friend of mine said that he thought they 'looked like someone's memory'. I think that might be because the images take a huge public space and make it intimate and personal - a little distorted and saturated. Not sure. They are quite beautiful though, compositionally speaking, and even after the initial "Oh, right", I still keep staring. 
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