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Olivo Barbieri: Montréal seen by helicopter
At the CAA in Montreal, photographer Olivo Barbieri from the Emilia region in Italy, shows his most recent work: 16 photographs commissioned by the Canadian museum last spring that show the city as seen from a helicopter. The photographs make up part of the project “Site Specific” that since 1978 has kept the photographer busy all over the world in a continual search for contemporary urban settings to photograph, always from above.
From a distance, architecture is seen in miniature and the urban fabric is transformed into a giant model, with passer bys and cars reduced to microscopic presences. In Montreal, Barbieri’s images concentrate on a particular period, the 1960s, a crucial decade of growth and major change for the capital of Quebec that saw its with the universal expo of 1967, to which the Canadian museum dedicates an extensive exhibition. E.S.
20.10.2004 – 13.2.2005 Site Specific_Montréal 04. Photographs by Olivo Barbieri Canadian Centre for Architecture 1920 rue Baile, Montréal http://www.cca.qc.ca/exhibitions
