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Ten years after his passing, the great master of photography Gabriele Basilico is celebrated by his city - Milan - with a major exhibition showcasing 300 shots from Italian and international cities.
Promoted and produced by Comune di Milano-cultura with Palazzo Reale and triennale di Milano together with electa, and created with the scientific collaboration of the Gabriele Basilico archive, the exhibition ‘Gabriele Basilico. Le mie città’ – curated by Giovanna Calvenzi and Filippo Maggia – presents a selection of Basilico’s major international commissions. The exhibition architecture, designed by Umberto Zanetti, ZDA - Zanetti Design Architettura and resolved in the rooms of the lucernario and the caryatids in the confrontation between the micro-scale of the layout and the monumental space of the surroundings, is conceived as an urban layout, a labyrinth of streets and squares in which the spectator encounters, in a winding, surprising and free, wireless path of images, Basilico’s photographs set up on panels as if they were the walls of city streets. The lighting project, developed with Marionanni and Viabizzuno , draws inspiration from the luminaires of the urban landscapes immortalized by the cosmopolitan gaze of the Italian photographer. The overhead cables that punctuate the images of the cities of Basilico are reinterpreted by the catenaria di luce serpentine, designed for Viabizzuno by the master of architecture, Pritzker award 2009, Peter Zumthor and tailored to the context of the Palazzo Reale by means of fixing on 4500mm high steel poles, which allow to bring all electrical connections to the perimeter of the room, thus avoiding conduits in the middle of the exhibition route. The electronic light sources of the light fittings
Are characterised by a colour temperature of 3000K and high light quality parameters, they can be oriented within a flexible set-up – realised with UniFor – leaving visitors free to enjoy the author’s frames. The perimeter walls, architectural and sculptural, thus remain barely perceptible, in a half-light that guides the viewer to discover cities and metropolises of the world as if lost within a film, where every photogram is similar yet different.
‘I confess that when I went in, almost as an observer, to visit the exhibition ‘Gabriele Basilico. Le mie città’, which I had curated with Filippo Maggia, I was moved. The space in the Sala delle Cariatidi in the Palazzo Reale, Milan, is magnificent and very difficult. UniFor had built, with Umberto Zanetti’s design, wonderful poplar display panels that held Gabriele Basilico’s works and built a sort of small city, with large avenues and small squares, where one could also sit and look at the cities of the world that Gabriele Basilico had photographed during his career. The emotion arose, however, from noticing that the lighting of the works was on the one hand perfect, and on the other an elegant replica of the many cables of street lights around the world that Basilico always kept at the centre of his vision. The tangles of cables in Rio de Janeiro or Shanghai, the light poles of San Francisco or berlin found an elegant echo in the lighting choices that Marionanni, who knew Gabriele’s work very well, and Viabizzuno had made. Such kindness of vision, of creative participation in the exhibition, transcended professional commitment and entered the territory of affection and friendship.’
”catenaria di luce serpentine
catenaria di luce serpentine designed by Peter Zumthor has the flavour of summer feasts and cities by night, where endless tangled cables become the protagonists of the urban landscape. Consisting of a suspended wire to which adjustable and fixed lights are attached, catenaria fits elegantly into both indoor and outdoor contexts creating discreet, yet emotional paths of light.
This light fitting was created for ‘hortus conclusus’, the temporary summer structure that Peter Zumthor designed in 2011 for the serpentine gallery in London. This temporary, but highly representative installation of great importance in the world of art and architecture was a contemplative space where light redefined architecture as a sensory experience. The very entrance was marked by a catenaria of galvanised iron E27 incandescent light bulbs, as in old village feasts. A simple and inviting light, familiar, unspectacular, elemental, non-invasive.
IP54 rated suspension light fitting for outdoor use. Made of oxidised and powder coated aluminium light fittings. The glass is blown and entirely hand crafted by master glassmakers.
13x4mm section suspension cable with 2x1,5 mm² conductors of 20000mm length, wired with 3000K Ra98 5.6W 586lm led source. Optics: 36° or diffused. 220-240V 50-60Hz 24Vdc power supply. Accessories: clip/suspension tie-rod night black,24Vdc and 350mA derivation unit with IP67 connector.
Finish in nero notte.
the intentionally chosen colour for culture is burgundy red.
its depth calls to mind both the great theatrical curtains and artistic passion. the vital energy of red is a light capable of both enhancing and respecting works of art.
collecting, preserving, exhibiting: culture thrives on a delicate balance. light can either enhance a work or debase it.
