Rome, Gabriele Basilico's shots of the city theme are on display at Palazzo delle Esposizioni

From January 25 to April 13, 2020, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome opens its doors to Metropoli, an exhibition dedicated to Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944 - 2013), one of the major protagonists of Italian and international photography, focusing on the theme of the city with some 270 images dating from the 1970s to the 2000s, some of which are on display for the first time on this occasion.

The city has always been at the center of Gabriele Basilico’s investigations and interests. The theme of the anthropized landscape, the development and historical stratifications of cities, the margins and the ever-changing suburbs have always been the main driver of his research.

The exhibition compares works made in the many cities he has photographed, including Beirut (with images from 1991 and 2011), Milan, Rome, Palermo, Naples, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, London, Boston, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, San Francisco, New York, Shanghai, juxtaposed according to similarities and differences, assonances and dissonances, different points of view in the way of interpreting and relating the built space.

The exhibition is divided into five major chapters: Milan. Portraits of Factories 1978-1980, the first major project carried out by Basilico; Sections of the Italian Landscape, a survey of our country divided into six itineraries made in 1996 in collaboration with Stefano Boeri and presented at the Venice Architecture Biennial; Beirut, two photographic campaigns exhibited together for the first time, made in 1991 in black and white and in 2011 in color, the first at the end of a long war that lasted over fifteen years, the second to tell the story of its reconstruction; The Cities of the World, a journey through time and place from Palermo, Bari, Naples, Genoa and Milan to Istanbul, Jerusalem, Shanghai, Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro and many more; and finally Rome, the city in which Basilico worked on several occasions, developing ever-changing projects until 2010, on the occasion of a stimulating as well as challenging comparison between the contemporary city and the 18th-century engravings of Giovambattista Piranesi.

In addition to the works in the exhibition, an extensive illustrated biography is offered that recounts through short texts and images Basilico’s artistic and professional journey (several times, in fact, the two spheres have crossed paths) and three videos: the first made by Tanino Musso in 1991 in Beirut and re-edited by Giacomo Traldi, who also reworked an interview by director Amos Gitai from 2012 dedicated to Rome and Piranesi. The third video, About Sections of the Italian Landscape, is an interview with Stefano Boeri conducted by Marina Spada in 2002.

For all information you can visit the official website of Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

Pictured: Gabriele Basilico, Milan Porta Nuova (2012)ù

Source: press release

Rome, Gabriele Basilico's shots of the city theme are on display at Palazzo delle Esposizioni

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