
Gabriele Basilico
Spaces in Between
Skira (Publisher)
Published on 28. April 2022
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-88-572-4684-0 (ISBN)
Description
In-between territories is a collection of 131 photographs, most of them previously unpublished, produced by Gabriele Basilico over the course of his career, from the late 1980s up to the first decade of the 2000s and beyond. The book, edited by Filippo Maggia, approaches the extensive artistic body of work left by this Milanese photographer from an angle that has received little consideration until now.
Basilico's in-between territories are physical spaces and seem almost tangi ble to the gaze, but they are also mental spaces, induced in the observer by the voids, the absences determined by pauses and silences in the visual construction of the image. The depth of the light and the choice of perspective adopted by Basilico help to deter mine the equilibrium of shape between the volumes, inducing the right interpretation of the image, through that act of suspension and contemplation that the photographer often emphasized as a fundamental moment in observing the landscape, of whatever kind it may be and however it presents itself.
Basilico's in-between territories are physical spaces and seem almost tangi ble to the gaze, but they are also mental spaces, induced in the observer by the voids, the absences determined by pauses and silences in the visual construction of the image. The depth of the light and the choice of perspective adopted by Basilico help to deter mine the equilibrium of shape between the volumes, inducing the right interpretation of the image, through that act of suspension and contemplation that the photographer often emphasized as a fundamental moment in observing the landscape, of whatever kind it may be and however it presents itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milan
Italy
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
140 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1099 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-572-4684-0 (9788857246840)
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Persons
Filippo Maggia is curator of Photography at Fondazione Sandretto, Turin. He collaborates with Sky Arte HD and is on the Scientific Committee of Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan.