Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museo ICO, Madrid, Spain, May 30-September 10, 2017, within the PHotoEspaña festival, Madrid, Spain, May 31-August 27, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Gabriele Basilico photographs places which are suspended in time, without a history or a future, and this indetermination is precisely where their beauty and interest lie. His images go forward and reverse between nature and urban, thaht neutral space left in the middle, those terrain-vagues where city planning has succumbed to the conurbation's inherent expansion. These are photographs that reflect upon the end of the industrial cycle, upon ruins--both physical and ideological--of modernity, They are an attemt to understand a new environment arisen form the ashes of industrial spaces and compact cities. Basilico's work turns abandoned industrial buildings, chaotic conurbations and contemporary ruins into monuments of post-modern landscape.
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