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A meticulously established <\/strong>path<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n
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Many European photographers went to the United States with readings, not always accurate but mostly nostalgic, of Robert Frank\u2019s Americans in mind. There are countless subjective and even sentimental road movies, notebooks fascinated by wide open spaces, small towns, motels lost at the ends of the world, and wooden houses from another century.
Francesco Jodice\u2019s approach is the opposite of this. He does not consider photography as a vector for memories of an intimate experience, but as a tool for analysis. The latter follows a meticulously established path based on historical data and makes it possible to grasp the evolution and decline of the greatest world power over a period of 160 years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This is the time span between the beginning of the gold rush in 1848 and the spectacular collapse of the Lehman Brothers bank in 2008, which affected the entire US banking system, and beyond.
Francesco Jodice photographs and highlights one of the forgotten elements that made the United States powerful: an iconography, or more precisely a combination of iconographies that not only associate and combine the natural landscape and Hollywood with the conquest of space, among others, but also found mythologies and power. But today the American landscape is going bankrupt and is littered with ruins, while we are still in the land of big bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian Caujolle, Curator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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\u00a9Francesco Jodice, West, Picacho Butte, Arizona, #013, 2014\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The lamaindonne Editions and the Galerie Le Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Eau present
After the West, photographs by Francesco Jodice on the occasion of the exhibition \u00abWest\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Textes de Matteo Balduzzi, Francesco Jodice, Francesco Zanot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Size : 19 x 23,5 cm
104 pages \/41 b&w and four-color photographs
Paperback cover with flaps<\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u00a9Editions Lamaindone Couverture du livre West <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n
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Biography of the artist<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n
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Francesco Jodice, born in Naples in 1967, lives in Milan. His artistic research focuses on changes in the contemporary social landscape, with particular attention to the urban anthropology phenomena and the production of new participation processes. His projects seek to establish a common ground between art and geopolitics, offering artistic practice as civil poetics.
He has been teaching for two years at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan in visual arts and curatorial studies, as well as in the master’s degree programme in photography and visual design
He is a founder of the Multiplicity and Zapruder organisations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n

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He has participated in important group exhibitions such as Documenta, the Venice Biennial, the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial, the ICP Triennial in New York, the second Yinchuan Biennial, and has exhibited at the Castello di Rivoli, the Tate Modern (London) and the Prado (Madrid).
His major projects include the photographic atlas \u201cWhat We Want\u201d, an observatory of landscape change as a projection of collective desires, the urban trace archive \u201cThe Secret Traces\u201d and the trilogy of films on new forms of urbanism \u201cCitytellers\u201d.
His most recent works – Atlante, American Recordings, WEST and Revolutions – explore possible future scenarios for the West.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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WEST is a research project that investigates the origins of the current crisis of the liberal model and, more generally, of the West in an arc between the beginning of the Gold Rush (1848) and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008). Begun in 2014, WEST consists of three long journeys through some of the states where the Gold Rush took place-California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas, with the inclusion of contiguous Mexican areas.<\/strong>
The focus of the entire work is at the crossroads between the particular geology of this region (one of the oldest geological structures on the planet) and the archaeological ruins (mines, ghost towns, utopias, complexes and abandoned infrastructures) of this season driven by an irrepressible quest for immediate wealth.<\/strong>
Curated by Matteo Balduzzi<\/em>
Realized with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, WEST has been selected among the winners of the X edition of the Italian Council (2021) a program for the international promotion of Italian art of the Directorate- Generale for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.<\/em>
The project is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Milan Cinisello (MUFOCO) with the Gallery Le Ch\u00e2teau d'Eau, in collaboration with the architecture center Arc en r\u00eave of Bordeaux.<\/em><\/p>\n","onct-event-short-desc":"WEST tells the story of the rise and fall of the American model and its image, over a period between the beginning of the gold rush (1848) and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008).","onct-event-img":"https:\/\/cdn.openagenda.com\/main\/6666db2c3edf432f85a74aa826c70021.base.image.jpg","onct-event-img-credits":"\u00a9Francesco Jodice Las Vegas, Nevada, #011, 2014","onct-event-day":1,"onct-event-month":3,"onct-event-year":2023,"onct-event-hour":12,"onct-event-minute":0,"onct-event-timestamp":1677668400,"onct-event-end-timestamp":1680364800,"onct-event-duration":21600,"onct-event-age-min":5,"onct-event-age-max":99,"onct-event-registration-link":null,"onct-event-free-entrance":false,"onct-event-one-day":false,"onct-event-past":true},"onct-event-type":[54,78],"onct-event-public":[15,55],"onct-event-lieu":[152],"onct-event-mot-cle":[664,667,661,665,528,532,662,668,663,533,527,666,660],"onct-event-accessibilite":[],"class_list":["post-6571","onct-event","type-onct-event","status-publish","hentry","onct-event-type-exposition-en","onct-event-type-exposition-2","onct-event-public-tout-public","onct-event-public-tout-public-2-en","onct-event-lieu-ch-teau-d-eau783","onct-event-mot-cle-italianministryofculture","onct-event-mot-cle-crise","onct-event-mot-cle-crisis","onct-event-mot-cle-etats-unis","onct-event-mot-cle-exhibition","onct-event-mot-cle-exposition","onct-event-mot-cle-goldrush","onct-event-mot-cle-ministerecultureitalienne","onct-event-mot-cle-mufoco","onct-event-mot-cle-photographie","onct-event-mot-cle-photography","onct-event-mot-cle-ruee-vers-lor","onct-event-mot-cle-unitedstates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFrancesco Jodice "West" - 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