Mimmo Jodice

Domenico " Mimmo " Jodice ( born March 24, 1934 in Naples ) is an Italian photographer and was from 1970 to 1996 professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

Works

Jodice worked since the 60s in Italy with numerous representatives of different art movements such as Pop Art, Arte Povera, Fluxus or together and was only at the age of 30 years professional photographer. As a documentarian of conceptual art Jodice made ​​numerous recordings of artists such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg, but later increasingly focused on landscape photography and inanimate scenes. In this area, Jodice has become one of the most important Italian photographers.

In his works, Jodice mainly deals with the representation of Italian and Mediterranean cities and landscapes he photographed exclusively in black and white. Time and transience are central themes of Jodice work. He often produced by the combination of decaying monuments and sculptures, bright landscapes or modern urban scenarios a field of tension between history and modernity, and the various aspects of Italian culture through the ages. An example of this is his series LOST IN SEEING. Dreams and Visions of Italy, the effect of the essayist Alessandro Mauro reported by saying " In Jodice 's work silence takes over places and the photographs become metaphysical visions, to interweaving of the signs of the past As They return to inhabit the present" Very well known. are also Jodices grim photographs of his hometown of Naples, Naples, for example, in the series: une archéologie future.

In addition to numerous exhibitions of his work all over the world Jodices works are now part of the collections of the Aperture Foundation in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris or the Museo d' Arte Contemporanea in Turin. In 2003 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize -.

About thirty books and illustrated books documenting Jodices decades of work.

Exhibitions

  • Mimo Jodice - Transiti, art collection Jena, 2013 catalog. .

Publications (selection)

  • Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour. Contrasto, 2011.
  • Roma. Johan & Levi, Milan, 2008, ISBN 978-88-601-0007-8.
  • Domestic: visions of Boston. Skira Editore, 2002.
  • Paris: city of light. Maison européenne de la photographie, 1998.
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