This year in Rome, photographer Nick Barberio has has arranged not only to produce and present two entirely different exhibitions of his work, but was also accepted into the "Fotografia Festival Inter
April 24, 2006 (Press Release) --
Photographer, Nick Barberio, has been busy this year while living in Rome, Italy. Just last March, Barberio showed his work simultaneously with Marty Schwartz at Hopewell’s Gallery 14 in a show called Hieroglyphs, and in August, he had a one-man show in New York called Soupçon. While in Rome, he has arranged not only to produce and present two entirely different exhibitions of his work, but was also accepted into the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, the international photography festival that has been held in Rome for the last five years.
The first show entitled "Visibile Parlare," was at the bookstore in Campo de’ Fiori called Fahrenheit 451. "Visibile Parlare," or Visible Speaking, is an expression taken from the Divine Comedy where Dante is speaking of a visual art so meaningful that it succeeds in communicating as though it were actually language. The current show, called "Trasporto: The Other Side," is set in imaginary 20th century universe where humankind is rendered passive by its inventions and presented in the style of a comic–book narrative. The catalog of the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma describes the work as “almost a painting by Lichtenstein”–not the first time his photographs have been compared to painting.
Nick Barberio, who received his MA in Visual Culture from New York University, lives between Princeton, NJ and New York City, where his work has been shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steven Harris Architects in Tribeca, as well as Gallery 14 in Hopewell, NJ. "Trasporto: The Other Side" is on display until May 18 at L’Impiccione Viaggiatore in Rome, Italy on via Madonna dei Monti, 28. For more details, please visit his website www.nickbarberio.com, and other websites, www.limpiccioneviaggiatore.com, and www.fotografiafestival.it
The first show entitled "Visibile Parlare," was at the bookstore in Campo de’ Fiori called Fahrenheit 451. "Visibile Parlare," or Visible Speaking, is an expression taken from the Divine Comedy where Dante is speaking of a visual art so meaningful that it succeeds in communicating as though it were actually language. The current show, called "Trasporto: The Other Side," is set in imaginary 20th century universe where humankind is rendered passive by its inventions and presented in the style of a comic–book narrative. The catalog of the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma describes the work as “almost a painting by Lichtenstein”–not the first time his photographs have been compared to painting.
Nick Barberio, who received his MA in Visual Culture from New York University, lives between Princeton, NJ and New York City, where his work has been shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steven Harris Architects in Tribeca, as well as Gallery 14 in Hopewell, NJ. "Trasporto: The Other Side" is on display until May 18 at L’Impiccione Viaggiatore in Rome, Italy on via Madonna dei Monti, 28. For more details, please visit his website www.nickbarberio.com, and other websites, www.limpiccioneviaggiatore.com, and www.fotografiafestival.it
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