Barbara Luisi Explained

Barbara Luisi is a photographer and a musician. After many years in New York City, she now lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Venice, Italy. Her artist statement: "my work is concerned exclusively with the perception of three elements: darkness, sound and loneliness. As a trained classical violinist, I have to first hear my images and it is always this noise or music that triggers my themes."

Life and career

Barbara Luisi was born and raised in Munich, Germany. At the age of nine, she began studying the violin. After graduating from the Munich Arts and Music High School she studied violin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and obtained the Concert Diploma. She was a violinist in the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra of Toulouse and the Bavarian State Opera as well as being the "primaria" (first violinist) in the "Pocci String Quartet.”

At age seventeen, she began exploring photography, experimenting with a Leica M6 and developing her work in her own darkroom. During the past decade she has devoted her time to her photography and numerous projects and books.

Throughout the body of her work she explores her fascination with myriad manifestations of light, especially nocturnal light in the streets of New York, Florence, Oslo, Tokyo, Vienna and Paris or deep in ancient caves or reflected in seascapes.

Barbara Luisi was married to conductor Fabio Luisi, together they have three children.^[1] They divorced in 2020.

On 21 January 2020 she made her debut in Carnegie Hall as a violinist in a program with harpist Alexander Boldechev.

Books

• Nude Nature. Böhlau, 2007.
• Glühende Nacht: Artificial Lights. Böhlau, 2008.
• Pearls, Tears of the Sea Böhlau, 2011.
• Dreamland Contrasto, 2014.

Exhibitions

• Ausstellung Pearls, Tears of the Sea, Hamburg.^[2]
• Nude Nature, Vienna^[3]
• 2014: Dreamland, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Glorietta Gallery, Beirut, 2015 for PhotoMed.^{[4] [5]}
• 2014: "Ouvres récentes," Maison de la Photographie, Paris.^[6]
• 2015: "Luci su Firenze, di notte",^[7]
• 2017: "The Spiritual South" Quick Art Center, NY
• 2018: "AKT" LeicaStore Rome, Italy and Rooney Gallery, Tokyo
• 2019 "Eternal Beauty" at SPARK, Venezia, Italy and "sacred Garden of India" Palazzo Grassi, Genova

General references

• Book: Luisi. Barbara. Glühende Nacht - artificial lights: Photographs . 2008. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2008. Germany. 9783205781899. 118.
• Web site: Riechau. Cindy. Photomed Liban: Showcasing the hidden concepts of the world . iloubnan.info. iloubnan.info. January 16, 2015.
• Book: Luisi. Barbara. Dreamland. 2014. Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2014. 9788869655005. 96.
• https://www.artapartofculture.net/2018/12/05/akt-fotografie-di-barbara-luisi-leica-store-roma/

External links

• "Opening night at the Quick Center honoring Visiting Master Barbara Luisi" on YouTube
• BARBARA LUISI A LA MEP
• Barbara Luisi at Artnet
• Luci su Firenze, di notte
• Rome AKT at LeicaStore
• Carnegie Hall Debut
• Eternal Beauty - Venice, Italy

Notes and References

1. News: Daniel J.. Wakin. 2022-01-15. Brunch, Books and Family Time. The New York Times. 22 October 2011. 0362-4331.
2. Web site: Barbara Luisi – Ausstellung Pearls, Tears of the Sea. Radio Tele Nord. May 26, 2015. September 25, 2012.
3. News: Barbara Luisi: Nude Nature. May 26, 2015. Der Standard (Austria). June 1, 2011.
4. News: Stoughton. India. Bridging cultural borders at Photomed. May 26, 2015. Daily Star (Lebanon). January 22, 2015.
5. Web site: Faites des photos, pas la guerre !. L'Orient Le Jour. May 26, 2015. January 22, 2015.
6. Web site: Why Now Is a Good Time to Visit the Maison Européenne de la Photographie . Fotografia . May 26, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150526195933/http://fotografiamagazine.com/why-now-is-a-good-time-to-visit-the-maison-europeenne-de-la-photographie/ . May 26, 2015 . mdy .
7. Web site: Luci su Firenze, di notte. June 30, 2015 .