“Dark Memories” Gian Paolo Barbieri

Sotheby's Milan and Gian Paolo Barbieri together for the photo exhibition Dark Memories, Palazzo Broggi from 5 to the 20 June 2013.

On display about 50 Photos dated by the artist 2000 today dedicated to the nude. The exhibition will take place in conjunction with the release of the book published by Skira Gian Paolo Barbieri – Dark Memories, (texts by Maurizio Rebuzzini and Nikolaos Velissiotis), from which the extract: Long has been the approach of the Barbieri photos of the nude. Long and deeply thought. In his trilogy of books on the subject had experienced Tropics. But these experiments not appagavano: fear of vulgarity, the desire to describe a world according to his own conception that has to "dignify" also scene more violent, the study of a suitable technique were problems for years have occupied his mind. The human body, and sex, are exuberant event nature. So the photographer has the pleasure to describe it in all its expressions, that are absolutely natural, without perversion, because the nature itself, shamelessly, is expressed through the body and sex.

So the series of nudes Dark Memories is a hymn to this exuberance of nature in all its forms. Without false modesty, without fear of banality, playing with happiness and innocence of a child over that thin red line that has never split, with a decisive cut, the so-called pure art from polluted, poetry from vulgarity, the sacred from the profane.

Exhibition open to the public 5 to the 20 June 2013 Monday to Friday, from 10 to 13 and by 14 to 18.

We do not recommend visiting the exhibition to minors 14 age.

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