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29/1/2008

Gabriele Basilico

Fundacion Astroc, Madrid

On veiw 40 photographs on Istanbul, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Beirut and San Francisco

Gabriele Basilico is the winner of Premio Astroc 2007

This photographer and architect is one of the most internationally acclaimed creators due to his studies of the urban landscape. For over forty years, he has carried out personal research projects as well as public and institutional commissions.

His first project was Milano, ritratti di fabriche (work shot in Milan’s former industrial outskirts between 1978 and 1980). Subsequently, he was the only Italian invited to participate in the Mission Photographique de la D.A.T.A.R. (Délégation a l’Aménagement du Territoire et à l’Action Regionale), the most extensive structured photographic campaign performed in Europe during the entire twentieth century, which was organised by the French government from 1983 to 1988. During the same period, he made Porti di mare (1982-88) and in 1991 his photographic campaign on Beirut.

During the nineteen nineties, Basilico renewed his research on Italian territory, specifically on the transformations in the urban landscape, commencing in Milan with Interrupted City (1996) and continuing in six different Italian areas with Sezioni del paesaggio italiano (1996), a project divided in six parallel routes from one city to another, conceived in collaboration with Stefano Boeri.

In 1996, the international jury of the VI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in the Venice Biennale awarded him the “Osella d’oro” photography prize in contemporary architecture.

The subject of the city’s identity between historical pre-existence and contemporary development, between destruction and post-war reconstruction, between urban utopia and forge of the future is well represented, among others, by his work on the city of Berlin in 2000, the result of an invitation from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst).

In 2000, Basilico was awarded the I.N.U. (Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica) Prize for his contribution to the photographic documentation of contemporary urban space.

More info on Premio Astroc http://www.premiosastroc.org Image: Beirut 1991 - 2003

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