Gabriele Basilico’s Gaze on Rome on show at Palazzo Altemps

Castel Sant’Angelo

The closing of the exhibition Gabriele Basilico. Roma at Palazzo Altemps in Rome has been extended to Sunday, May 4, 2025.

The exhibition is promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Altemps, the MUFOCO – Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Archivio Gabriele Basilico. It is curated by Matteo Balduzzi and Giovanna Calvenzi.
The central theme of the exhibition is the connection between Gabriele Basilico and the Eternal City, established through twenty professional assignments given to the photographer between 1985 and 2011, and the several photographic campaigns that followed.

The exhibition offers a temporal journey through the capital at different moments between 1985 and 2011, reflected in the selection of fifty-six works in various formats—some of which are unpublished and mostly in black and white. The works reveal the photographer’s constant rigor in capturing the harmony of rationalist architecture while also being surprised by the contrasts between daily life and the monumental past. The exhibition depicts rare contemporary architectures, before shifting the focus to the Tiber River, enveloped in an ambiguous, somewhat gloomy light—photographed in 2007 for the Roma 2008 Commission as part of the 13th edition of FotoGrafia – International Photography Festival in Rome. There is no judgment or irony in this gaze, but it certainly provides thought-provoking insights that go beyond pure subjectivity.

For more information, visit the website Museo Nazionale Romano
or Archivio Gabriele Basilico

When

Starts: 12 December 2024
Ends: 4 May 2025

Where

Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Altemps
Piazza S. Apollinare, 46
00186 Roma

Information

tel. +39 06.684851; mail mn-rm@cultura.gov.it
Promoters: DGCC of MiC, Museo Nazionale Romano, the MUFOCO and the Archivio Basilico
Curated by: Matteo Balduzzi and Giovanna Calvenzi

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