Gabriele Basilico

Basilico is one of the best-known Italian photographers and, over the years, he has worked in various cities: Milan, Beirut, Bolzano, and Berlin among others. Amongst other things he was the first and only Italian to take part in the prestigious French photographic mission Datar, in 1984.
The shows and books by Gabriele Basilico are always an important meditation on landscape photography. His interest goes far beyond mere documentary photography and is, in fact, a necessary reference point for those occupied today with photography and town planning.
In an interview Basilico has said, “Obviously I take

photographs with regard both to the principle and to the aesthetic experience of ‘vision’. In this sense I am wholly a photographer. But it is also true that photography, and not just as a language, has been part of the world of art for some time for which it has full credentials. I am, though, convinced that it is over-simplifying to say that photography is fully a part of the great sea of art research: it is one thing to use photography as a language in order to communicate a work conceived in another way (an installation, for example) but it is something different to interpret reality by considering it ‘photographically’”.
See biography

San Francisco

Naples

Istanbul

Berlin

Iran 1970

Persepolis

Installations

Videos

San Francisco


  • San Francisco 2007, 2008 (07A3-280)

    Ed. 1/15
    pure pigmented print
    100 x 130 cm

Naples


  • Napoli 2004 / 04A10-11, 2007

    Ed. 2/15
    pure pigment print
    99 x 126 cm


  • Napoli 2004 / 04A10-2, 2007

    Ed. 1/15
    pure pigmented print
    99 x 126 cm

Istanbul


  • Istanbul, 2005 mail

    Ed. 1/15
    gelatin silver print
    126 x 90 cm


  • Istanbul, 2005

    Ed. 1-15
    gelatin silver print
    126 x 93 x 5 cm

Berlin


  • Berlino 200A3-288, 2000

    pure pigmented print
    200 x 100 cm


  • Berlino 2000A3-129, 2000

    pure pigmented print
    200 x 100 cm


  • Berlino 2000A3-137, 2000

    pure pigmented print
    200 x 100 cm


  • Berlino 2000B3-139-12, 2000

    pure pigmented print
    200 x 100 cm

Iran 1970


  • Shiraz, Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 21 x 31 cm


  • Isfahan, Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 20,5 x 31,5 cm


  • Isfahan Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 32 x 21 cm


  • Isfahan, Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 18,5 x 26,5 cm


  • Shiraz, Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 21 x 29 cm


  • Isfahan, Iran - Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 21 x 31 cm


  • Iran 1970

    vintage print gelatin silver print 20,5 x 31 cm

Persepolis


  • Persepoli 198/32a

    vintage print gelatin silver print 49 x 49 cm (with frame) 19 x 27,5 cm (passepartout)


  • Persepoli 196/4a

    vintage print gelatin silver print 49 x 49 cm (with frame) 19 x 27,5 cm (passepartout)


  • Persepoli 197/41

    vintage print gelatin silver print 49 x 49 cm (with frame) 19 x 27,5 cm (passepartout)


  • Gabriele Basilico - Persepoli, 2016

    installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Iran 1970 - Basilico prima di Basilico, 2016

    installation view
    Studio la Città, Verona


  • Gabriele Basilico - Installation view

    Studio la Città 2011