In recent years Nabil became a video producer too, with his first short one You Never Left featuring the French actress Fanny Ardant about a comparison between exile and death, set in natural and historical Egyptian backgrounds. In those years Youssef developed a very personal technique based on hand-colored gelatin silver prints, fully expressed in portraits of famous artists or painters, celebrated movie actors, international pop singers immersed in an intimate and emotional atmosphere. The Seydou Keita Prize, won in 2003 at the Biennale of African Photography in Bamako, encouraged him to leave Egypt, spend a few years in Paris, and then in New York where he still lives today. Nabil’s production was praised in the article “Tomorrow people” published by Harper’s in 2001, which draw the interest of private galleries and collectors. UPCOMING EXHIBITS IN VENICE, SUMMER-WINTER 2020-21Įvery Saturday, Sunday and Monday from h.10 am to 7 pmīorn in Cairo, Egypt, Youssef Nabil started his career as a photographer at twenty years old in 1992, and soon decided to move to New York and Paris to work with some celebrated fashion photographers in order to improve his artistic education.īack to his native country in 1998, he had his first solo exhibit in Cairo, but his debut in the international scene was due to the Tracey Emin, a British artist who was greatly impressed by his work and helped him achieve broad success. The 20th century photographer’s eye is confronted with the one of a 18th century vedutista -view painter- able to catch the timeless magnificence of those immortal buildings, triumphal arches, ornate fountains, grand staircases, and exotic obelisks.

In 2007 he published a photo book about Rome and its landmarks, followed by an exhibition of the most impressive Basilico’s pictures from the book.įor the first time in Venice Basilico’s twenty-six pictures of ancient roman monuments are now on display side by side, compared with twenty-five Piranesi’s etchings of the same subjects, selected from the Cini Graphic and Art Collection. His countless trips around the world increased his sincere concern about metropolitan areas, which became the hall mark of his style, celebrated in over 120 books and successful exhibits at Madrid, Paris, Rome and at the Venice Biennale in 19. He initially focussed on social and later architectural subjects, captured in their relationship with human presence and the constant evolution of the urban space. Born in Milan, Basilico enrolled in the Politecnico where he earned a degree in architecture, which had a profound influence in his early photography career from the late 1960’s. The show is curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Institute Art History, in collaboration with the photographic Archive Gabriele Basilico. The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibit “Piranesi Rome Basilico” on occasion of the 300th anniversary of Giambattista Piranesi’s birth (Venice 1720 – Rome 1778). Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from h.12 am to 8 pm

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