from the exhibition “Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia”
Brescia, 2010, pure pigment print

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from the exhibition “Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia”
Brescia, 2010, pure pigment print

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from the exhibition “Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia”
Brescia, 2010, pure pigment print

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from the exhibition “Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia”
Brescia, 2010, pure pigment print

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from the exhibition “Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia”
Brescia, 2010, pure pigment print

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These pictures – by Italian photographer of towns, architecture and factory buildings GABRIELE BASILICO – are all taken from the series “Unidentified Modern City”.  Under this title lies a unique collaboration between the BASILICO and the American Conceptual artist DAN GRAHAM around the city of Brescia in Italy.

They each took pictures using their own equipment and their own methods. BASILICO with his rostrum shots on August bank holiday: few people around, the town virtually empty, large buildings, suburbs, vast views, tall office blocks and supermarkets. DAN GRAHAM, on the other hand, works like an American tourist from the Bronx: automatic camera, spontaneous shots, shop windows and inside McDonald’s (make sure to watch DAN GRAHAM’s pictures here)

A European eye versus an American one. An inhabitant of famous town centres and a street kid from the American suburbs. Two opposing views, which strangely enough, found in Italy and in Brescia a recomposition not in the history of the old city but in its more recent emergence of suburban architecture, middle-class suburbs, non-places.

And good news: the exhibition DAN GRAHAM & GABRIELE BASILICO. Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia, curated by MAURIZIO BORTOLOTTI runs until 21 May at the Galleria Massimo Minini in Brescia.