FRANCESCO JODICE

Naples, 1967



Galleria Michela Rizzo is pleased to announce the exhibition Altrove/Elsewhere which will open on 07 October 2023. The group exhibition, curated by Bartomeu Marí, will present the works of Antoni Muntadas and Francesco Jodice.
From their singular perspectives and bodies of work, both artists have critically analysed and represented phenomena produced by different forms of globalisation in cultures, landscapes, cities and societies. Their work has an undeniable realist component and considers the practice of art as a form of knowledge, critical experience and commitment. The aesthetic perspectives and methodologies they have developed are strongly rooted in the evolution of technologies and mass media. They focus on their effects in the processes of construction and development of new local and collective identities as well as in the transformations of public spaces with the languages and behaviours that grew in them. Acting like critical ethnographers, their multidisciplinary practices include procedures echoing anthropology, economics, sociology or alternative and collaborative epistemologies.
This is not a retrospective exhibition. Instead, it treats works and motivations by both artists as threads that unfold in the rooms of the gallery. It doesn't seek to compare strategies or personal positions but rather suggests contrasts through conceptual and perceptual consonances. The artists share and dissent, inspire and produce counter-images and “other” narratives.

Unintentional approximations also occur at distance, for example through iconographic contrasts and scale jumps. Works of diverse nature, different materials and formats are brought together, offering unexpected prospects between the two artists. The work of one artist enhances the perception of the other, and vice versa.
The exhibition shows some of the main themes of constant interest for both Francesco Jodice and Antoni Muntadas. Urban and metropolitan phenomena appear as a 'text' in which the exercises of the economy, the media or political powers can be read. Their works reveal how global phenomena influence local landscapes, individuals and communities. The past and the present collide in the public sphere, often linked by a combination of vernacular and planetary
realities. In addition, rarely exhibited works are included, reflecting the processes of construction or erosion of political identities, commercial and national developments, dystopian expressions, digital technologies that enable us to navigate geographies, and finally outline a history 'constructed' by the media.

Critical text by Bartomeu Marí.

A special thanks to the lenders:
- ICCD_Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la
Documentazione
- Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz

Francesco Jodice (Naples, 1967). He lives in Milan.

His artistic research focuses on the continuous contemporary changes involving landscape and society, with particular attention to the new phenomena related to urban anthropology. His projects aim to build a common ground between art and geopolitics, trying to use his art as a sort of civil poetics.

He currently teaches in Milan. He directs the Photography class in the Cinema & New Media master degree course and the Visual Urban Anthropology one in the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies master degree course, both in NABA. He also teaches at the Forma Foundation in the Photography and Visual Design master degree course, also in Milan and in collaboration with NABA.

He was one of the founders of the collectives Multiplicity and Zapruder. He exposed his works at dOCUMENTA, the Venice Biennale, the San Paulo Biennale, at the ICP Triennale in New York, further more he exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, in the Rivoli castle and at the Prado Museum. His main projects include his photographic atlas ‘What We Want’, his urban tails archive ‘Secret Traces’ and his cinematographic trilogy ‘Citytellers’ concerning the new shapes that urbanistic is taking.

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