BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER 41 Favoris>Europe Spring-Summer 2003 Cover by GABRIELE BASILICO 2002 Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944 - 2013) was an Italian photographer who defined himself as “a measurer of space”. He was focused on the landscape photography and more precisely to architectural photography. Gabriele Basilico was trained as an architect and graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1973. To give him international fame in 1982, it was a photo- graphic report on the industrial areas of Milan (Ritratti di Fabbriche, Sugarco). In the mid 1980’s he was part of the group of photographers committed by the French Government to document the transformation of the Transalpine lan- dscape. He continued to work up until his death: during his career there were more than 100 group and 50 solo exhibitions, with a major retrospective at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna , in Turin, in 2001. At the Venice Biennale in 1996, he received the Osella d’Oro award , a most prestigious trophy to add to the rest. The scholar and curator Francesco Bonami said that, in his urban landscapes, Basilico was “like a doctor examining a patient who has survived a deadly disease. He observed destruction and at the same time acknowledged the incredible possibilities offered by survival.”