CLAUDIO ABATE.
A PROJECT BY GERMANO CELANT
A PROJECT BY GERMANO CELANT
Cinisello Balsamo (Milan): Silvana Editoriale, 2023
The monograph, edited by Germano Celant and Ilaria Bernardi as his associate editor, is the first to systematically retrace the life and career of photographer Claudio Abate (Rome, 1943-2017). It offers a historical and critical reading of Abate’s work, documented through a chronology filled with illustrations, unpublished materials, texts, and quotations. Germano Celant worked on it with Ilaria Bernardi before he passed away. The book is published posthumously with an introductory text by Carlos Basualdo and a chronology curated by Ilaria Bernardi.
Abate’s production ranges from photographs of artworks, artists and exhibitions of Arte Povera to shots on the Italian and international exhibition scene, and on to photographs on the subjects of theater, fashion, costume, current affairs for weeklies and magazines, even experimental photographic artworks.
In an all-encompassing vision, Abate puts the photographic medium to the test by adapting it to multiple fields, disciplines, themes, and subjects.