The Museum of Art Lucerne hosts from September 27 "Urbanscapes" exhibition, the photographer Gabriele Basilico. The exhibition curator is Marco Meier. Coinciding with the exhibition, the catalog "Gabriele Basilico be published. Urbanscapes "with texts by Gabriele Basilico, Giovanna Calvenzi, Roger Diener and Marco Meier.

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.

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Gabriele Basilico was born in Milan, Italy (12 August 1944, ibidem, 13 February 2013). He has photographed all over Europe and the world, including a project commissioned by the French government to document changes in the national landscape in 1984 and a project photographing devastated Beirut in 1991. He was awarded the “Grand Prix International du Mois de La Photo” in 1990 and won the top prize for the Sixth Exhibition of Architecture of the Venice Biennial by the international jury. He has exhibited widely across Europe and the United States, including a retrospective of his work from 1984-1999 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2000 and a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2008. He has published many books including “Porti di Mare” and “Berlin,” for which he was awarded the prize of the year's best photography book by PhotoEspagna in June of 2002.

His work can be found in the National Library of France, at the MAXXI in Rome, at the University of Palma and in various European and American museums.
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