Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

The exhibition provides a original, wide-ranging and absorbing “Grand Tour” of Italy. The images span the long career of this great photographer and cover the Italian peninsula from Turin to Trieste and Bolzano to Stromboli; the collection is being presented here for the first time. Mimmo Jodice, one of Italy's most important photographers, has never ceased to observe and explore the beauty and remarkable harmony of all things visual, their sudden divergences and magic have always amazed him. The 160 photographs on show, all large format black and white images, include both famous photographs and images being shown in public for the first time, united here through visual and aesthetic association. Little known scenes from Naples alongside unusual views of Rome or Milan, ever-changing landscapes, squares and backstreets, almost forgotten monuments are rediscovered by Jodice's refreshing and objective eye. This is a journey through vision and reality, poised between a living past and difficult present, it allows us both to know and to recognise the composite and varied beauty of Italy through the interpretative gifts of Mimmo Jodice, one of Italian photography's most sensitive and original exponents. “I would like to quote Fernando Pessoa: but what was I thinking before I lost myself in looking? This phrase seems written for me, it describes my recurring state so well: losing myself in looking, imagining, pursuing a vision beyond reality” (Mimmo Jodice)