Projekte | Viabizzuno progettiamo la luce

Viabizzuno lights up the ‘gabriele basilico. le mie città’ exhibition, celebrating the famous photographer with over 300 shots of italian and international cities. promoted and produced by comune di milano cultura with palazzo reale and triennale milano together with electa, it has been created with the scientific collaboration of the gabriele basilico archive. the exhibition – curated by giovanna calvenzi and filippo maggia – presents a selection of basilico's major international commissions. the exhibition architecture, designed by umberto zanetti, zda - zanetti design architettura and resolved in the rooms of the lucernario and the caryatids in the confrontation between the micro-scale of the layout and the monumental space of the surroundings, is conceived as an urban layout, a labyrinth of streets and squares in which the spectator encounters, in a winding, surprising and free, wireless path of images, basilico’s photographs set up on panels as if they were the walls of city streets. the lighting project, developed with marionanni and Viabizzuno, draws inspiration from the luminaires of the urban landscapes immortalized by the cosmopolitan gaze of the italian photographer. the overhead cables that punctuate the images of the cities of basilico are reinterpreted by the catenaria di luce serpentine, designed for Viabizzuno by the master of architecture, pritzker award 2009, peter zumthor and tailored to the context of the palazzo reale by means of fixing on 4500mm high steel poles. the electronic light sources of the light fittings are characterised by a colour temperature of 3000K and high light quality parameters, they can be oriented within a flexible set-up – realised with UniFor – leaving visitors free to enjoy the author’s frames. the perimeter walls, architectural and sculptural, thus remain barely perceptible, in a half-light that guides the viewer to discover cities and metropolises of the world as if lost within a film, where every photogram is similar yet different.