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OLIVO BARBIERI YANCEY RICHARDSON

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NEW YORK CITY — The Yancey Richardson Gallery is presenting “The Waterfall Project,” an exhibition of new color photographs by Italian artist Olivo Barbieri. The exhibit is on view through December 22.

Made at the sites of four of the world’s largest waterfalls, “The Waterfall Project” examines the dichotomy of the waterfall as a symbol of natural unspoiled paradise and its reality as an artificially controlled spectacle packaged for the consumption of viewers. The subjects of “Project” are each located on a different continent: Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe; Iguazu, bordering Argentina and Brazil; Khone Papeng, on the border of Laos and Cambodia; and Niagara Falls, located between the United States and Canada.

In “The Waterfall Project” Barbieri extends his concepts of waterfalls as edifices of nature rather than man; Barbieri’s subjects feel vast, powerful and primordial. Images range from an idyllic mist-laden vision of a seemingly undiscovered cataract to depictions of the waterfall as an ancient wellspring of life, combining elements of the terrible and the beautiful.

A participant in the 1993, 1995 and 1997 Venice Biennials, Barbieri’s films and photographs have been exhibited internationally at major institutions.

The Yancey Richardson Gallery is at 535 West 22nd Street. For information, www.yanceyrichardson.com or 646-230-9610.