Fabio Barile

Works














/St. Thomas’ haptic gaze /Disquisitions on my left eye or An extended self-portrait /Works for a cosmic feeling /Homage to James Hutton/An investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land /Among /Ashes /Fires aftermath in Sardinia /Perspicere /Exhibition portfolio
/Get Here The Book of Works for a Cosmic Feeling, Published by Witty Books

Commissions
/On the appearence of things /Compendium on rock as language /Ancient and primeval beech forests /Oslo Follo line high speed railway project /Survey of the industrial area of Porto Marghera /Middle - Earth, A journey inside Elica

AI
/Rock formations as abstract paintings /Expanded perspicere — After Fra Angelico /Variation on a realistic 3D of a Large Format Camera N.4 /Variation on a realistic 3D of a Large Format Camera N.5

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. Between 2019 and 2020 Barile participates in the major touring museum exhibition ‘On Earth - Imaging, technology and the natural world’ held at 50th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, FOAM Museum in Amsterdam and at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes. In 2020 a portfolio of his body of work, “Works for a Cosmic Feeling” 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. In 2021 the book “Works for a Cosmic Feeling” is among the finalists of the MACK First Book Award, now published by Witty Books.

Selected exhibitions

2024

The Secret of the Deep Time (Group exhibition)

Verwey Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands


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

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


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, Italy