Fabio Barile

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Works

Photography
2020 — Ongoing Disquisitions on my left eye or An Extended Self-portrait
2018 — 2021 Prototype #1/Works for a cosmic feeling
2013 — 2018 Homage to James Hutton/An investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land
2007 — 2024 Among
2018 — 2024 Ashes
2021 Fires aftermath in Sardinia
2018 — 2023 Perspicere
2016 — 2022 Exhibition portfolio

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2023 Expanded perspicere — after Fra Angelico
2023 Expanded perspicere
2023 Variation on a realistic 3D of a Large Format Camera N.4
2023 Variation on a realistic 3D of a Large Format Camera N.5

+ Commissioned projects
2023 On the Appearence of Things
2022 Compendium on rock as language
2020 Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests for Unesco
2019 Oslo Follo Line High Speed Railway Project
2016 Survey of the industrial area of Porto Marghera
2014 Middle - Earth, A Journey inside Elica

+ EXTRA
Interview with Claudia Bigongiari on PELLICOLA
Interview with Mauro Zanchi on ATP DIARY ITA/ENG
VIDEO TRAILER of WFACF at MATÈRIA

Fabio Barile was born in Italy in 1980

Graduating from FSM in Florence with a degree in photography in 2007. In the same year he was selected as one of 15 finalists of the 'Atlante Italiano 007' Award and his work was exhibited at MAXXI,in Rome. He started his photographic research in 2005 with a project about coastal erosion that affects 1500 km of the italian coastline. This project, titled 'Among', aims to investigate natural processes of the landscape. This work is part of 'Visions and Documents', a ten-book set published by Documentary Platform. It also has been exhibited in several group shows, for example: 'Tempi Osceni. Moments de la photographie contemporaine italienne II' at the Centre d’Art Dominique Lang in 2009. In the same year, he had his first solo show, 'Diary n°0, things that do not happen', as part of Fotografia, Festival Internazionale di Roma. This exhibition resulted in the publication of his first book, curated and produced by 3/3. In 2017, following his solo show at Matèria, Barile exhibits a selection of works from his body of work “An investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land” at the National Archive for Cataloguing and Documentation in Rome, Curated by Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, creating a dialogue beetween his work and the images sourced from the archive itself.

In 2019, alongside Domingo Milella, he participates in his first major museum exhibition ‘Le Forme del Tempo’, curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva at Fondazione Pescheria Centro Arti Visive in Pesaro. During the last few years, he has developed a major interest in complexity, and the use of photography as a philosophical tool, in order to stimulate a conscious and deeper understanding of reality. In 2020 a portfolio of his most recent works was published on Foam Magazine #57 In Limbo, and in the same year he was one of the five artists working with photography, chosen from UNESCO to work on the most recent italian sites entering the UNESCO World Heritage, and the resulting exhibition will travel around the world in the upcoming years.

Selected exhibitions

2023

Tre-di-ci ,Sguardi sui musei di Lombardia (Group exhibition)

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

2022

Fabio Barile & Domingo Milella — Le Forme del Tempo

Terme di Diocleziano, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy

Regeneration (Group exhibition)

American Academy in Rome, Italy

Di Roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee (Group exhibition)

MAXXI, L'Aquila, Italy


2021

Di Roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee (Group exhibition)

MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Works for a Cosmic Feeling

Matèria, Rome, Italy


2020

On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)

FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


2019

On Earth — Imaging, technology and the natural world (Group exhibition)

50th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles,France

Fabio Barile & Domingo Milella — Le Forme del Tempo

Centro Arti visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy


2018

MAPS|SPAM (Group exhibition)

Società Geografica Italiana, Villa Celimontana, Rome, Italy

Osservare la terra — a dialogue beetween contemporary photography and the historical archive of ICCD

ICCD — Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Rome, Italy


2017

An Investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land

Matèria, Rome, Italy

2015

Homage to James Hutton

Matèria, Rome, Italy


2014

Open Museum Open City (Group exhibition)

MAXXI — Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

Fabio Barile & Francesco Neri — Middle-Earth a journey inside Elica

Elica Showroom, Milan, Italy


2011

Giovane fotografia di ricerca in Puglia (Group exhibition)

Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy


2010

Visions and Documents (Group exhibition)

Fotografia International Photography Festival 11, Mutation III, MACRO — Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy


2009

Diary N° 0, Things that do not happen

S. T. gallery for Fotografia International Photography Festival 09, Rome, Italy