© Mimmo Jodice
Galerie Karsten Greve 5, rue Debelleyme 75003 Paris France
Galerie Karsten Greve in Cologne devotes a solo show to the renowned Neapolitan photographer Mimmo Jodice, continuing the successful cooperation with the artist in recent years. The works in this show were recently exhibited at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples and are closely related to the museum’s collection of paintings. Mimmo Jodice studied the wonderful old master paintings, especially the vivid portrayals of people, and photographed selected sections and portraits in black and white. He brought these studies into a fascinating dialogue with his portrait photographs taken on the streets of Naples over many years. By matching the photographs from the museum and those from “real” life in pairs, he displays a moving, almost incredible intensity of human emotions. The faces’ expressivity conflates epochs, human ages, and visual techniques.
Mimmo Jodice was born in Naples in 1934. An active photographer since the 1970’s, he has also taught photography at the Naples Academy. His work having become a beacon for contemporary Italian photography has been widely exposed through countless exhibitions and international publications.
TRANSITI OPERA 14, 2008, Carbon print on cotton paper, Ed. 2/5, 70,3 x 207,5 x 2,6 cm, 27 2/3 x 81 2/3 x 1 in (Polyptych) © Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve
Vignette : TRANSITI OPERA 3, 2008, Carbon print on cotton paper, Ed. 2/5, 70,3 x 145,5 x 2,6 cm, 27 2/3 x 57 1/4 x 1 in (Diptych) © Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve
