Italian artist Olivo Barbieri studied drama, music, and art at the University of Bologna before becoming infatuated with photography and traveling regularly to Asia and elsewhere to take photographs. Barbieri’s artwork has been displayed in exhibits all over the world; Museum Folkwang in Germany devoted a retrospective to his photographs in 1996. In 2016 Barbieri’s work was included in the (Infra) Structure exhibition at Lannan Foundation.