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At the National Museum of San Carlos
Opening of the Sensuality and beauty. Antonio Canova and Mimmo Jodice exhibition
July 07, 2016Mexican public will see with the Sensuality and Beauty. Antonio Canova and Mimmo Jodice exhibition, two artists whose talent show the beauty of shapes, textures, details, but above all the incomparable presence of the human being in this world.
Maria Cristina García Cepeda, general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish) said that this exhibition supports Italy’s artistic beauty of yesterday and today through the work of a great artist of forms and marble, and a photographer who was one of the few to be awarded the prestigious Feltrinelli prize.
The National Museum of San Carlos will host this international exhibition from July 7th to October 2nd, offering the opportunity to approach the creative work of one of the most prominent Italian sculptors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Antonio Canova (1757-1822 ) through six sculptures and 13 engravings, together with 29 photographs by Mimmo Jodice Domenico (Naples, March 24, 1934), who reinterprets with his lens the sculptor's work.
During the tour in the National Museum of San Carlos, the public could see the famous sculpture Cabeza de bailarina (Head of dancer) by Antonio Canova in 1820, which is accompanied by 28 pictures of other works captured by Neapolitan photographer Mimmo Jodice, including Daedalus and Icarus and Cupid and Paris, 1934.
The Antonio Canova section is complemented by the Head of Madame Recamier and Head of Letizia Ramollino and a portrait of himself made in the nineteenth century by an unknown author.
Other images by Mimmo Jodice portray works as Eurydice, Cupid and Sique, Penitent Magdalen and Female bust.
The exhibition culminates with the works of drawing and engraving borrowed from the collection of the Library of Bassano del Grappa Museum, as Ballerina with hands on her hips, Bust of Napoleon, Venus Italica, Portrait of Pope Pius VII and Three dancers with musical instruments.
The Sensuality and beauty exhibition, curated by Juliana Ericani, former director of the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa and made in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Mexico, the Dante Alighieri Institute in Mexico and the Italian Institute of Culture, will be opened to the public from July 7th to October 2nd at the National Museum of San Carlos, in Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera. Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 hours. Sunday, free admission.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
