Tina Modotti, Exhibition Pallavicini Palace, Bologna

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Tina Modotti

From 26 September to 16 February 2024

Pallavicini Palace

Via San Felice, 24, Bologna

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From September 26, 2024 to February 16, 2025, the rooms of Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna will host an exhibition dedicated to the photography of Tina Modotti (Udine, 1896 - Mexico City, 1942), a prominent figure in photography and political activism of the first half of the 20th century. Organized and realized by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni, and Rubens Fogacci of Pallavicini s.r.l., together with the Tina Modotti Committee, the exhibition, curated by Francesca Bogliolo, aims to retrace, through a refined selection of about a hundred works and some precious documents, the human story of a courageous and nonconformist woman who was able to interpret the sentiment of her time, elaborating a poetic truth that carries human values capable of transcending the limits of space and time. Independent, free, modern, Tina Modotti combined her love for art and truth with her political fervor, which guided her choices and interventions as an activist, with the will to contribute to the creation of a better world. In continuous dialogue with artists and intellectuals during the evolution of her expressive periods, Modotti developed a photographic language with an intimate tone, capable of investigating the contradictions of reality to penetrate its secret lyricism. The entirety of the exhibited shots in the exhibition reveals, from the beginning, a new way of observing reality, participating in the fleeting nature of its moments: the articulated path through the rooms aims to invite the observer to dialogue with their personal conception of time, sometimes still and astonished, sometimes fleeting and elusive. What emerges strongly is a happy and free Tina (happy because she is free), as she writes to Weston in April 1925: a woman with a lively intellect and surprising introspective capacity, whose multifaceted nature appears capable of guiding her choices. Articulated in six sections, the exhibition path aims to show the public the infinite facets of a photographer skilled in neglecting aesthetics to dedicate herself to ethics, developing an eloquent and personal visual code, outlined and evolved in a very short time, yet capable of leaving an indelible mark in the historical and photographic heritage of the first half of the last century. The continuous dialogue with the photographs of Edward Weston, a reflection of a dense epistolary exchange between the two artists, tells of Tina's obsession with photographic quality and her repeated declaration in 1929 to objectively record life in all its aspects.

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