Olivo Barbieri, Altre Tempeste, 2025

Olivo Barbieri’s project takes its cue from Giorgione’s *The Tempest* to explore, through colour and light, the contemporary landscape of the Veneto region. For Barbieri, the Venetian painter’s Renaissance work becomes a key to understanding and a starting point for a journey that, from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, extends to the mainland and to landscapes marked by historical, architectural and industrial layers. From Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb in Altivole, to Antonio Canova’s Gypsotheca in Possagno, to Villa Parco Bolasco and the Casa Giorgione Museum in Castelfranco, Barbieri alternates between wide vistas and minute details, interweaving pictorial references and observations on the present. The book *Altre Tempeste*, produced as part of the *OMNE LAND. Altre Tempeste* project, supported by *Strategia Fotografia 2024* and promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, explores the transformations of the landscape of north-eastern Italy: industrial warehouses, historic architecture, and natural and urban landscapes are juxtaposed with an artistic legacy ranging from Giorgione to Veronese. For Barbieri, photography is a laboratory where painting, architecture and science converge; what matters is not only the object depicted, but the very way in which the gaze is constructed. In this process, colour becomes a structural element, capable of capturing Venetian tradition and, at the same time, offering new ways of interpreting the present. The publication presents thirty-two previously unpublished works by Olivo Barbieri, accompanied by a number of critical essays that expand on the subject: Manlio Brusatin explores the theme of colour in Venetian art, Mauro Varotto interprets the contemporary landscape in the light of *La Tempesta*, whilst Stefania Rössl situates the project within the artist’s oeuvre, placing it in dialogue with his earlier work. Taken together, the texts and images offer a nuanced and original interpretation of Altre Tempeste, in which the landscape emerges as the protagonist and photography becomes a tool for thought and critical imagination.

A volume published to mark the exhibition Olivio Barbieri. Altre tempeste, edited by Stefania Rössl, Massimo Sordi and Matteo Melchiorre, Museo Casa Giorgione, Castelfranco Veneto, 26 September – 2 November 2025.