Christian Basetti, born in 1979, fine art and interior photographer, living in Milan, Italy. Since 2016, I started to researc ancient decadent places, trying to give voice to these structures full of melancholic charm. Secret and silent worlds that exist in a dimension suspended both in the present and in the past, out of time. My subjects are predominantly historical Italian palaces that still hermetically preserve all their corrupt charm. A forgotten splendor that keeps all the ancient legacy of the Italian artistic tradition. These environments represent a challenge and each has its own degree of attention, as they are often difficult to access and trace. Hidden and rare places that could disappear due to the wear of time, or due to demolitions or renovations that will erase their original melancholy history. Palaces that, in my imagination, it is as if they were narcissistic entities destined to oblivion in search of someone able to give voice to them and transmit for one last time their lost glory. The project "Forgotten Art-chitectures" came to life. "Art-chitectures" is a term that I conceived to merge in a word a creative photographic style linked to the world of abandoned places in decay: art and architecture. The approach with which I photograph this places is artistic. I don't limit myself to shot the desolate scenes with an exclusively documentary spirit, but I always introduce a careful personal "fine art" vision, inspired by italian painter Caravaggio: lights and shadows blend with the environments of ancient times, as in a painting. Like I’m a “ Chronoreporter” I try to preserve in my shots the melancholic beauty of these places, buildings which will be most likely demolished or the elements will make them crumble upon themselves. All treasure projects that the public will no longer be able to know, swept away by time.