Gian Paolo Barbieri - Skin - 1988-2015

The photographs that make up "Skin"—Gian Paolo Barbieri's latest work, one of the most famous Italian fashion photographers—are visions of beauty that communicate to the audience the healthy, courageous, and provocative dimension of eroticism. Following an inquiry already explored in previous works such as "Dark memories"—Barbieri offers a cosmogony of the sensual, through men and women, naked and brazen, in the name of elegance. The use of black and white, light, shadows, and poses—behind which one recognizes tributes to great artists of the past—testify to a beauty that is the hope of being recognized in one’s "differences" beyond any false moralism, and that restore the sense of the real, stripped of any falsity. The catalog is introduced by a critical text by Pino Bertelli.