Tina Modotti and Mimmo Jodice will be the stars of CAMERA Turin's new fall exhibitions

CAMERA-TheItalian Center for Photography in Turin has two new exhibitions scheduled for the fall. From October 16, 2024 to February 2, 2025, the exhibition Tina Modotti. L’opera, curated by Riccardo Costantini, promoted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo and realized in collaboration with Cinemazero. The exhibition will revolve around the adventurous life of the photographer, who was born to a humble family in Udine, then emigrated to the United States and later to Mexico, from where she was exiled, migrating to Germany, Russia, Spain, and then back to Mexico, where she passed away at only 46 years old. All told in 300 works on display, documenting the multifaceted nature, artistic peculiarities, and curious, participatory and free-spirited nature of Tina Modotti, who throughout her short but intense career captured the intensity and contrasts of the worlds she traversed, expressed through portraits of everyday life, but especially by recounting social injustice, labor, political activism, poverty, the contradictions of progress and the transition to modernity. The exhibition is also intended to have relevance from a documentary point of view, as it will bring together various unpublished materials, videos, magazines, documents, newspaper clippings, portraits of the artist, as well as photographs dating back to the first and only exhibition that the photographer made in 1929. The exhibition is accompanied by a rich catalog published by Dario Cimorelli Editore.

Until Feb. 2, 2025, CAMERA’s Project Room will also host another exhibition, Mimmo Jodice. Oasis, in collaboration with Fondazione Zegna. Curated by Walter Guadagnini with the collaboration of Barbara Bergaglio, the exhibition will present for the first time forty images belonging to the series made by the Neapolitan photographer between the spring and winter of 2008, for a commission received by the Foundation. A corpus within which it is possible to find Jodice’s poetics, his ability to transform the elements of reality, natural or artificial, landscapes or interiors, plants or industrial machinery, into metaphysical visions, suspended in time and space. As a preview, on the occasion of the FAI days, on Oct. 12 at Lanificio Ermenegildo Zegna and Casa Zegna in Trivero (Biella), four large prints by the artist from the same series will be presented. For the occasion, Walter Guadagnini will give a talk at 4 p.m. entitled The Weave and the Snow. Mimmo Jodice in Trivero.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, published by Dario Cimorelli Editore, introduced by a testimonial by Anna Zegna, president of Fondazione Zegna, with an essay by curator Walter Guadagnini, a text by Ilaria Bonacossa and reproductions of the complete series, consisting of more than 60 works.

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Tina Modotti and Mimmo Jodice will be the stars of CAMERA Turin's new fall exhibitions

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