Mimmo Jodice. Mediterraneo
Organized by Unità di Missione per la Cooperazione culturale con l’Africa e il Mediterraneo allargato del Ministero della Cultura, Comune di Matera, Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019, MUNAF – Museo Nazionale di Fotografia, Studio Jodice Palazzo Lanfranchi, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura,
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Non verbal
Free Event
Description
A contemporary look at the ancient, capable of restoring to the present day and renewing in the present the original aura of works and monuments of a lost Mediterranean. An immersion in the vision of the past through powerful images, the fruit of a transformative photographic art. This and more is Mimmo Jodice. Mediterraneo, the exhibition curated by Carlo Sala, which welcomes the public from July 7 to November 8, 2026, at the Palazzo Lanfranchi of the National Museums of Matera.
The exhibition features 83 photographic works, 68 of which are vintage silver gelatin prints on baryta paper with selenium toning, created by the artist himself between the late 1980s and early 1990s and belonging to the celebrated Mediterraneo series. They come from the private "i Cotroneo" collection, Rome, and were lent for exhibition purposes by the collector himself and by the Farnesina Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which conserves and exhibits a portion of them. The exhibition is complemented by five large-format works (140x100 cm) from the Dancers series, along with an appendix of ten vintage and modern works dedicated to Mimmo Jodice's most recent research on the Mediterranean, from Studio Jodice. Together, they form the corpus of the first major institutional monographic exhibition since the artist's death, an undisputed protagonist in the history of contemporary European photography. They also provide a valuable opportunity to reintroduce and update the now historic Mediterraneo series, demonstrating how the artist has consistently and gently returned to this research over the years.
The images are the fruit of numerous explorations of Mediterranean culture and archaeology, beginning with his native land, to which Jodice was always attached, with visions of Paestum, Pompeii, Cumae, and Baiae. The gaze then expands to a broader Mediterranean, stretching from Greece to Turkey, Jordan to Tunisia, France to Libya.
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