I decided to start my gallery day by checking out all the art galleries around the block. The one that impressed me the most was Olivo Barbieri’s site specific, which is being shown at the Yancey Richardson gallery. I was also impressed with the Ghost I’m chasing by Nan Goldin her portraits of the old couple were really touching, and the size of the photographs gave me a feeling of numbness, it was like I was feeling, the couple’s embracing their love.
The Rat & Bear exhibition by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, was really weird and unsatisfactory for my taste. I did not like it, I thought it was tasteless what’s the point of having of dressing up in a rat and bear suits and do funny movements and then having the suits like in an altar type place.
Olivo Barbieri’s work is really interesting, and I enjoyed it a lot, my favorite picture was the one of the Coliseum in Rome, such a historical place how beautiful it is and it still stand thousands of years later it shows how powerful mankind can be. It also shows how small we are in this world, it made ask myself how does this planet looks from the outside, from the universe, if there is life outside this planet how do they look at us? What do they see?
Barbieri took his photographs from a helicopter 300 to 500 feet above ground with a large format camera, I will love to see work like this done in New York City but in the less remote places because obviously in the middle of the city I believe it cant be done maybe in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx parts less known of the city which are as good as the landmarks in downtown. Mr. Barbieri’s concept is great I belive he should do this in different parts of the world and see how people react to it. And see how small we really are in a Universe full of things that we do not know about.
