The Project in the Gaze

Landscape Photographs by Gabriele Basilico

  • Series Mendrisio Academy Press
  • Binding Paperback
  • Size 23,5 x 16,5 cm
  • Pages 132
  • Illustrations 60 in b/n
  • Language Italian, English
  • Year 2016
  • ISBN 9788836633210
  • Price € 22,00
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Abstract

This volume brings together the works of Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) devoted to the theme of landscape, bringing out the project that informed his gaze: the photographer was an architect by training, and particularly concerned with issues related to urban planning, as well as the development and transformation of the natural environment. The collection opens with a selection of photographs from the cycle Bord de Mer, the work Basilico carried out in the mid-eighties and which introduced him to the international arena: a research project which revealed, among much else, a close relation with art history, in particular with the painters of the eighteenth century. A broad selection is then given from two groups of works done in Switzerland: one dedicated to Luigi Snozzi’s architectural interventions at Monte Carasso (Locarno), the other to the landscape of the Saint-Gotthard Pass, interpreted as a lifeline between northern and southern Europe.

Texts by: Angela Madesani, Giovanna Calvenzi, João Nunes, Luigi Snozzi

Mendrisio, Palazzo Canavée, February - April 2016