Entropia y espacio urbano. Entropy and urban space.

Basilico photographs places which are suspended in time, without a history or a future, and this indetermination is precisely where their beauty and interest lay. These are images that reflect upon the end of the industrial cycle, upon the ruin both physical and ideological of modernity. They are an attempt to understand a new environment arisen from the ashes of industrial spaces and compact cities. Basilico s photographic career changed direction the day he decided to start a project on the urban and suburban buildings in south of Milan, an area which had been protagonist of the Italian miracle during the fifties but which the oil crisis had emptied. This emptiness turned these industrial buildings in landscape monuments , captured in their transit towards dissolving themselves into another world. This interpretation of ruin reaches its peak with his images of Beirut, where he shoots ruin itself. (Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entropia-Gabriele-Basilico).