An exhibition in Florence traces the themes of Mimmo Jodice's photography

From March 23 to July 14, Villa Bardini in Florence will host the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. Timeless, curated by Roberto Koch, promoted by Fondazione CR Firenze and Intesa Sanpaolo, in collaboration with Fondazione Parchi Monumentali Bardini e Peyron.

Mimmo Jodice’s artistic production has the ability to bypass all temporal contingencies by abandoning the logic of rapid consumption of images. A long time made of deep understanding, contemplation and meditation of the reality represented. The artist establishes a deep attunement with the images, which are often the result of experimental processing in the darkroom.

Eighty works, made between 1964 and 2011, will be on display, tracing the most important themes of Mimmo Jodice’s artistic work, divided into the sections Anamnesis, Languages, Views of Naples, City, Nature, Seas. From the sequence of statuesque faces and ancient mosaics, made for architect Gae Aulenti for the Museo station of the Naples subway, to the darkroom experiments of the 1960s where the rules of photographic language are disrupted by overcoming and forcing its limits. In the section of Views of Naples, the artist’s restlessness is perceived, with enigmatic panoramas in a suspended and rarefied time, characterized by voids and absences. By exploring his hometown, Jodice sets the stage for future exploration of other urban landscapes such as Boston, Paris, São Paulo, Rome, Milan and Tokyo. His search for emptiness is a response to his inability to accept chaos and madness, finding in this exclusion of noise a new personal and metaphysical dimension. Mimmo Jodice’s portrayal of Nature, on the other hand, is aggressive and unwelcoming, provoking in the viewer a feeling of unease prompting him to look at the world with new eyes. Finally, in the Sea, time seems to stop for good for Jodice, who spends hours contemplating it, identifying in the flat appearance, the circular movement of the waves and the repetition of natural gestures, the dimension of the absolute.

The exhibition is enriched by an unprecedented section devoted to shots of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s sculptures.These are ten vintage works linked by Jodice’s long research on sculpture and in particular to faces, which the photographer takes out of context: the frowning gaze of the Brutus, the composure of the Madonna of the Tondo Pitti, the intensity of the faces of the Day, Night, Twilight andDawn of the Medici Tombs, but also the details of the bodies of the Prisoners, the Palestrina Pietà and the Bandini Pietà. A tale of light caressing the surface of marble, which the photographer produced in the late 1980s for the volume Michelangelo scultore edited by Eugenio Battisti and published by Guida Editori in 1989.

A documentary on Mimmo Jodice’s life, made by director and author Mario Martone, his friend and fellow citizen, then accompanies the exhibition.

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An exhibition in Florence traces the themes of Mimmo Jodice's photography

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