Mimmo Jodice: First Posthumous Exhibition Opens at Vistamare Milano

Key facts

• Mimmo Jodice died in 2025 at the age of 91.
• The exhibition "Immagini del vuoto: dalla camera oscura alla camera chiara" opens on 30 September and runs until 14 November 2026 at Vistamare, Via Spontini 8, Milan.
• It is the first exhibition dedicated to Jodice after his death and the fourth Vistamare has devoted to him.
• The show is curated by Andrea Viliani with artists Linda Fregni Nagler and Armin Linke, in collaboration with the Archivio Mimmo Jodice.
• The project is based on research conducted directly on archival materials and covers his 1960s–70s experiments, the Vedute di Napoli, and the 1995 series Eden.
• Jodice was born in Naples in 1934 and approached photography in the late 1950s after early work in drawing, painting, and sculpture.
• He taught photography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996.
• The exhibition title refers to the void as a condition through which reality can manifest, exemplified by the emptied streets and isolated architecture of the Vedute di Napoli from the late 1970s.