For masters I had my eyes.
Michelangelo Antonioni

Fabio Gubellini, a mechanical engineer and head of the technical office and design department at TECNA, is
passionate about photography, an art to which he has dedicated himself, with success and public recognition, for a decade now. He makes images of industrial photography, photographic reportage of industrial archaeology, which he offers to tell stories of vanished places and jobs.

“Among the masters of photography – he writes – I admire Gabriele Basilico’s capacity for aesthetic synthesis, Luigi Ghirri’s incredible gift for universalizing the particular, and the metaphysical rationality in Gabriele Croppi’s images. I also feel very close to the early photographers of the Magnum Agency; among these pioneers of photography I admire Robert Capa’s innate vocation for reportage.”

Gubellini’s work expresses, in his images, the themes dear to TECNA: art, culture, environment and territory. In our virtual exhibition, which can be viewed through the gallery below, you can admire his fine shots of buildings, spaces and forms, whose grandeur, blurred by the decay of time and absence, bears witness to a recent history that is dramatically still vivid.

Una Estate Fa copertina

Collaborations and Competitions

  • 2020 Participation in the contest Phootomaarc – Public buildings in Italy: rationalism, classicism, monumentalism.
  • 2017 Participation in the contest Zeiss Photography Awards 2017 with the project Un’estate fa.
  • 2017 Participation in the contest Exposure Awards 2017 with the project Un’estate fa.
  • 2016 Participation in the open call for mapping abandoned authoritarian architecture TOTALLY LOST 2016 by Spazi Indecisi.
  • 2016 Participation in the photographic contest Stabile InStabile: abandoned or underused places by InStabile Portazza
  • 2013 Participation in the contest EX Area 2013 – photography contest on the theme of industrial archaeology.
  • 2013 Participation in the open call for mapping abandoned authoritarian architecture TOTALLY LOST 2013 by Spazi Indecisi.

Pubblications

  • 2018 Hic sunt leones on Platform AD
  • 2018 Il Villaggio ENI on Platform AD
  • 2017 Un’estate fa on Foto Cult (april 2017 – N°140)
  • 2017 Un’estate fa on FOTOgraphia (march 2017 – N°229)
  • 2016 Un’estate fa on Witness Journal
  • 2016 Un’estate fa on Il Giornale del Restauro
  • 2016 Un’estate fa on Platform AD
  • 2016 Un’estate fa on La Repubblica Bologna
  • 2016 Zucchero e Ruggine on The Mammoth’s Reflex.
  • 2016 Zucchero e Ruggine on Me Vs. Photography.
  • 2015 Zucchero e Ruggine on La Repubblica Bologna.

Personal Exhibition

  • 2017 Palazzuolo sul Senio (FI) – Temporary solo exhibition of the project Un’estate fa from October 14, 2018, to December 16, 2018, at the parish youth club of Sant’Antonio in Palazzuolo sul Senio.
  • 2017 Embassy Gallery – Temporary solo exhibition of the project Un’estate fa from September 3, 2017, to September 22, 2017, at the Galleria Embassy in Rimini (RN).
  • 2017 Circuito Off Fotografia Europea – Temporary solo exhibition of the project Un’estate fa from May 5, 2017, to July 22, 2017, at the Libreria del Portone bookstore in Reggio Nell’Emilia (RE).
  • 2016 Temporary solo exhibition of the Zucchero e Ruggine project from March 11, 2016, to April 3, 2016, at Tenuta Montecatone in Imola (BO).

Esposizioni Collettive

  • 2016 Call to the arts/01 : Contemporary art, site-specific projects.
  • 2016 TOTALLY LOST 2016 by Spazi Indecisi.