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29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery of Milan pays tribute to one of the most acclaimed masters of contemporary photography, Gian Paolo Barbieri and, in particular, to the “tropical” series of his long-­­term career that led him, since the eighties, to exotic and distant places, in the attempt to collect unprecedented portraits of a pure humanity and nature, temporal fragments bound to vanish forever, passing frames of an overwhelming metamorphosis and fatal ruin.
Barbieri finds himself, perhaps for the first time, utterly alone behind the camera, confronted with a subject who neither need nor conceive …