Analogies between world cities. In Trieste, Gabriele Basilico's photographic research on the theme.

The Magazzino delle Idee in Trieste is hosting from June 11 to September 5, 2021 the exhibition Gabriele Basilico. In the Cities, dedicated to one of the great masters of contemporary photography.

Curated by Giovanna Calvenzi and Filippo Maggia and organized by Erpac, the Regional Cultural Heritage Authority in collaboration with the Gabriele Basilico Archive in Milan and Skira Editore, the exhibition aims to present the famous photographer’s research on urban space and its transformations: during his travels, Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944 - 2013) discovered many analogies between the most diverse cities of the world. Analogies encountered in border places and historic centers, with mutations and architectural overlays stratified over time. As part of his extensive research on changes in urbanized territories in the transition from the industrial to the post-industrial era, the theme of the city as a complex and refined product of economy and history occupies a central role.

“Photographing the city does not mean choosing the best architecture and isolating it from its context to enhance its aesthetic, compositional dimension,” the photographer wrote, “but it means for me exactly the opposite. That is, to put ’cultured’ architecture and ’ordinary’ architecture on the same level, to build a place of coexistence, because the real city, the city that I am interested in narrating, contains this mixture between excellence and mediocrity, between center and periphery, even in the most recent recomposition of roles: a vision of urban space that, with a bit of rhetoric, we would once have called democratic.”

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Tickets: Full 6 euros, reduced 4 euros for over 65s, children 11 to 18 years of age, students up to 26 years of age, disabled. Free for children under 6 years old. Reservations are recommended on +39 040 377 47 83 or email info@magazzinodelleidee.it

Image: Gabriele Basilico, Trieste (1996). Credit Archivio Gabriele Basilico

Analogies between world cities. In Trieste, Gabriele Basilico's photographic research on the theme.

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