Basilico is one of the best-known Italian photographers and, over the years, he has worked in various cities: Milan, Beirut, Bolzano, and Berlin among others. Amongst other things he was the first and only Italian to take part in the prestigious French photographic mission Datar, in 1984.
The shows and books by Gabriele Basilico are always an important meditation on landscape photography. His interest goes far beyond mere documentary photography and is, in fact, a necessary reference point for those occupied today with photography and town planning.
In a recent interview Basilico has said, “Obviously I take photographs with regard both to the principle and to the aesthetic experience of ‘vision’. In this sense I am wholly a photographer. But it is also true that photography, and not just as a language, has been part of the world of art for some time for which it has full credentials. I am, though, convinced that it is over-simplifying to say that photography is fully a part of the great sea of art research: it is one thing to use photography as a language in order to communicate a work conceived in another way (an installation, for example) but it is something different to interpret reality by considering it ‘photographically’”. (see biography)
BEIRUT 1991 (91A6-563) – 2006
C-print, 98,5 x 126 cm
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BEIRUT 1991 (91A6-572) – 2006
C-print,
98,5 x 126 cm
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MONTECARLO 2005 (05A12-74) – 2005
salt silver print
126 x 100 cm
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MONTECARLO 2005 (05A12-135) – 2005
salt silver print
99 x 126 cm
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SAN FRANCISCO 2007 (07A3-595) – 2008
Pure pigmented print
100 x 130 cm
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SAN FRANCISCO 2007 (07A3-571) – 2008
Pure pigmented print
100 x 130 cm
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SAN FRANCISCO 2007 (07A3-338) – 2008
Pure pigmented print
100 x 130 cm
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SAN FRANCISCO 2007 (07A3-334) – 2008
Pure pigmented print
100 x 130 cm
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ROMA 2007 - Castel Sant'Angelo (07A10-104) – 2009
Pure pigmented print
79 x 99 cm
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ROMA 2007 - Ponte Cestio (07A10-77) – 2009
Pure pigmented print
79 x 99 cm
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ROMA 2007 - Isola Tiberina (07A10-133) – 2009
Pure pigmented print
79 x 99 cm
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ROMA 2007 - Vista dal Ponte Sisto verso Nord (07A10-81) – 2009
Pure pigmented print
79 x 99 cm
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installation view
Berlino - 2000, 7/15; Berlino - 2000, 2/15; Berlino - 2000, 3/15; Berlino - 2000, 4/15
salt silver print
200 x 100 cm each
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