Mimmo Jodice. Timeless
On display in Florence, at Villa Bardini, for the first time, the shots by the Neapolitan master Mimmo Jodice, with the screening of the video-documentary made by Mario Martone on the life of the Neapolitan master.
The exhibition offers a significant synthesis of Jodice's production by retracing, through 80 photographs taken from 1964 to 2011, the main themes of his art. An itinerary divided into 5 sections - Anamnesis, Languages, Views of Naples, Cities, Nature, Seas - among images that immortalize statues and mosaics, vestiges of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, urban views of Naples and other contemporary metropolises and works exhibited for the first time.
In the photographs dedicated to Nature and the Sea, Jodice captures a time that seems to stop, evoking the dimension of the absolute, in contrast to the absence and silence that characterize the images dedicated to Naples and other cities.
Also on display are the vintage works dedicated by the photographer to Michelangelo as sculptor. The images are the result of the artist's long research on sculpture and, in particular, on the vaults which Mimmo Jodice extraordinarily extracts from the context and fixes in a unique dimension: the frowning gaze of the Brutus, the composure of the Madonna of the Tondo Pitti, the intensity of the faces of the Day, of the Night, of the Twilight and of the Aurora of the Medici Tombs, but also the details of the bodies of the Prisoners, of the Pietà Palestrina and of the Pietà Bandini.
The exhibition offers a significant synthesis of Jodice's production by retracing, through 80 photographs taken from 1964 to 2011, the main themes of his art. An itinerary divided into 5 sections - Anamnesis, Languages, Views of Naples, Cities, Nature, Seas - among images that immortalize statues and mosaics, vestiges of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, urban views of Naples and other contemporary metropolises and works exhibited for the first time.
In the photographs dedicated to Nature and the Sea, Jodice captures a time that seems to stop, evoking the dimension of the absolute, in contrast to the absence and silence that characterize the images dedicated to Naples and other cities.
Also on display are the vintage works dedicated by the photographer to Michelangelo as sculptor. The images are the result of the artist's long research on sculpture and, in particular, on the vaults which Mimmo Jodice extraordinarily extracts from the context and fixes in a unique dimension: the frowning gaze of the Brutus, the composure of the Madonna of the Tondo Pitti, the intensity of the faces of the Day, of the Night, of the Twilight and of the Aurora of the Medici Tombs, but also the details of the bodies of the Prisoners, of the Pietà Palestrina and of the Pietà Bandini.
Access notes:
Villa; opening hours 10.00 -19.00; closed on Mondays
Garden: from March 15th to 28th open every day, from 10.00am to 06.00pm
from March 29th open every day, from 10.00am to 07.30pm
extraordinary opening on April 29th, June 24th and December 30th.
Closed first and last Monday of the month; 25th December
Direct access from the ticket office and entry into the first available visit slot.
Last admission one hour before closing.
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