Urbanscapes. Gabriele Basilico

Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) was one of the most important representatives of architectural photography. After studying architecture, in the 1970s he began photographing the transformation of the urban landscape. He was particularly interested in cityscapes, and his pictures show the modern age and its architecture in the most beautiful light. He became famous through his black and white photographs of industrial buildings on the periphery of Milan, for which he directed his lens at isolated elements such as chimneys and facades. His coolly elegant photographs are emphatically objective and deserted. He documented the changes in European port cities as well as the destruction of Beirut in the civil war. The architect Aldo Rossi said no other photographer had made ‘the typologies of urban planning’ so intensely visible in his pictures. The Lucerne Verein Fotokammer, established in 2013, is dedicated to the appreciation of analogue photography without nostalgic transfiguration. With Gabriele Basilico, in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Luzern the association is granting an internationally renowned photographer his first solo exhibition in Switzerland after his death.

Gabriele Basilico. Urbanscapes.
Exhibition in cooperation with Verein Fotokammer

Curated by Marco Meier

Where.- Kunstmuseum Luzern. Europaplatz 1. 6002 Luzern. Switzerland.
When.- 27.09 > 23.11.2014.

To coincide with the Exhibition the catalogue Gabriele Basilico. Urbanscapes will be published, with texts by Gabriele Basilico, Giovanna Calvenzi, Roger Diener and Marco Meier by SKIRA, Ed. Kunstmuseum Luzern and Verein Fotokammer Luzern, d/e, ISBN 978-88572-261-49.