Italian photo master Barbieri’s fashion works on exhibit in Milan
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MILAN, Nov 28 (Reuters) – From exotic and vibrant configurations for Vogue Italia to design Eva Herzigova consuming spaghetti, a new Milan exhibition looks at the previously undisplayed work of acclaimed Italian trend photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri.
“Gian Paolo Barbieri: Unconventional” opens on Tuesday, featuring artwork that Barbieri, 87, made throughout his career for designer manufacturers like Dolce & Gabbana and Vivienne Westwood as very well as of well known names which include actress Monica Bellucci and designer Donatella Versace.
Earlier unseen performs are also on display screen.
Barbieri arrived to the fore of intercontinental trend pictures in the 1960s. His trademark black-and-white pictures and theatrical-like settings tapped into movie noir.
Black and white pictures “presents the capacity to consider all the colors one particular desires” and concentrate on the essence of the image, Barbieri advised Reuters in an emailed response to concerns.
“I have normally expressed myself much more in black-and-white images,” he explained. “However, I also learned to like colour,” he added, describing a lot of of the will work on show.
[1/11] A photograph that portrays Czech-Italian design Eva Herzigova is viewed at the exhibition “Unconventional”, a selection of unseen colour photographs by Italian trend photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri, is viewed in Milan, Italy, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
On Monday, past models and designers flocked to Milan’s 29 ARTS IN Progress gallery for a preview.
Among the the artworks, a photograph of a William Shakespeare-motivated personal assortment picturing burlesque artist Janet Fischietto as Katherine, protagonist of Shakespeare’s comedy “The Taming of the Shrew.”
Stacked towards a vivid inexperienced tropical history on top of a donkey and in her doing costume, her tattoos in plain sight, the image confirmed a highly effective and glowering female with a mischievously sensual aura, Fischietto advised Reuters though speaking just apart from the hanging artwork.
“I adore his images” and “with colour, all this explodes into a triumph of natural beauty”, she explained.
“We needed to present a new side of Gian Paolo,” reported co-founder and co-director of the gallery Eugenio Calini, recounting the painstaking research in Barbieri’s archives, which store “in excess of 1 million negatives”.
The exhibition runs till March and a documentary about Barbieri is released in Italian cinemas on Tuesday.
“(Now) we see Gian Paolo in colors” and “it is stunning to have this kind of an artist nonetheless expressing his level of see today in Italy,” added Italian Vogue Chamber President Carlo Capasa.
Reporting by Federico Maccioni Modifying by David Gregorio
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