Live Auction 7874The Italian Sale
Gabriele Basilico (b. 1944)
Lot 103 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTION

Gabriele Basilico (b. 1944)

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Closed14 October 2010

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GBP 91,250

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Gabriele Basilico (b. 1944)
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each: signed 'Basilico' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
digital ink-jet print mounted on aluminium, in twenty-four parts
each: 30½ x 23 5/8in. (77.5 x 60.4cm.)
Photographed in 1978 and printed in 2006, this work is number three from an edition of fifteen

Marco Bianco Collection, Pietrasanta (acquired directly from the artist).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Reflecting the relationship between an object, the chair, and the human body through images, I thought of the funny and grotesque marks that strong textured chairs leave on the nude bodies of the bathers at the seaside in summertime: a true negative contact which, temporarily, aesthetically reveals the original surface of contact. The idea of reconstructing a sequence of markings in the studio, bringing chairs and backs together, seemed exhilarating to me.'
(Gabriele Basilico, Contact, Pietrasanta, 2006, unpaged).