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Vintage gelatin silver print
cm 39 x 49 (cm 33 x 33,5 picture) | 15.4 x 19.3 in. (13 x 13.2 in. picture)
Titled, dated and signed in pencil on the verso
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A beautiful title of a recent solo exhibition defines Mimmo Jodice's research well because the enigma of light is the characteristic that helps us to understand that very particular charm that emanates from images such as those proposed here. To understand them, we need to go back to the times when Jodice, by his own admission, having accepted that the change he had believed in in the 70s was not possible, implements a turning point both ethical and aesthetic that leads him to show a Naples without people but not without soul. What he is looking for thus becomes a search for what space can tell, as is clearly evident in this image where the subject, a wall shot inside Suor Orsola Benincasa, reveals itself in a synthesis between emptiness and full of strong poetic value. The surface of the wall reveals to light all its roughness that become metaphors while a clothesline bursts onto the scene, displacing those who observe its simple, admirable balance.
cm 39 x 49 (cm 33 x 33,5 picture) | 15.4 x 19.3 in. (13 x 13.2 in. picture)
Titled, dated and signed in pencil on the verso
Framed
Literature
Mimmo Jodice, Perdersi a guardare, Contrasto, Milan, 2007, p. 41
Mimmo Jodice (Naples 1934-2025) was interested in art, theatre, music and began as a self-taught artist in drawing and painting. This brought him closer to photography in the early 1960s, which he practised by experimenting with materials, codes and languages, as he was immersed in the neo-avant-garde atmosphere: he breathed it in the galleries of Amelio, Trisorio and Rulla and made it his own by frequenting artists such as Warhol, De Dominicis, Beuys, Kosuth and Kounellis. He expanded his interests first to anthropology and then to a new definition of urban space, which remains, together with his research into myth, his fundamental contribution to the non-documentary image confirmed in exhibitions, books and in awards such as his two honorary degrees in architecture in Italy and Switzerland.A beautiful title of a recent solo exhibition defines Mimmo Jodice's research well because the enigma of light is the characteristic that helps us to understand that very particular charm that emanates from images such as those proposed here. To understand them, we need to go back to the times when Jodice, by his own admission, having accepted that the change he had believed in in the 70s was not possible, implements a turning point both ethical and aesthetic that leads him to show a Naples without people but not without soul. What he is looking for thus becomes a search for what space can tell, as is clearly evident in this image where the subject, a wall shot inside Suor Orsola Benincasa, reveals itself in a synthesis between emptiness and full of strong poetic value. The surface of the wall reveals to light all its roughness that become metaphors while a clothesline bursts onto the scene, displacing those who observe its simple, admirable balance.
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