Description

During the years, Gabriele Basilico had many occasions to talk about his photography and his photographs. Generously, he spoke, wrote and taught a lot. He often narrated his experiences, that had allowed him to reach a mature awareness. For many yearsfor his whole adult life?photography has been his privileged interest, nourished by conversations, readings, meetings. However, when Livia Pomodoro in 2010 invited him in a theatre to narrate, in front of a public, his story as a photographer, Gabriele almost panicked. And he began to question himself, to write and re-write, read and read again, calculating the time, changing the rhythm of the sentences he had written or repeated many times. A new and unique experience, lived almost as an agony but at the same time exalting. It took many days to draft the text, days of rewriting and re-arrangement, of reading to friends and to those who had the occasion (or the audacity?) to visit his studio. Finally, the 8th and 9th of April 2010, with camera and tripod on his shoulder, Gabriele and his text Metropolitan Life went on stage at Nohma-Teresa Pomodoro Theatre in Milan. It has been a great success of public. For Gabriele, it has certainly been an amazing experience but, above all, an occasion to give shape and order to his reflections.