The exhibition organized by Fondazione Zegna in its Casa Zegna facility Mimmo Jodice. Oasi was specifically designed for the Foundation and explores the photography of the Neapolitan maestro commissioned by the Zegna family and shot in 2008 to portray the landscapes of Oasi Zegna and the interiors of the Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Mill. Curated by Walter Guadagnini with Barbara Bergaglio and organized in collaboration with CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin, the exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 22 March to Monday 21 April 2025.
The exhibition features 37 photographic works that show how the eye of Mimmo Jodice (Naples, 1934) embraced Trivero’s nature, its architecture and the manufacturing processes in the Ermenegildo Zegna Wool Mill to produce a new narrative in black and white images. The project is yet another example of the Foundation’s longstanding commitment to promoting and supporting the work of artists invited to use their visual art idioms to explore and represent the identity of Oasi Zegna’s territory.
Mimmo Jodice. Oasi presents Oasi Zegna’s landscape as immortalized by Jodice, thus revealing the photographer’s authentic poetics, his capacity to transform elements of reality, whether natural or artificial, landscapes or interiors, plant species or industrial machines, into metaphysical visions suspended in time and space. A further source of wonder is the presence of snow, the last thing we’d expect in Jodice’s “Mediterranean” oeuvre, standing out in all its stark purity.
At the opening of the exhibition, on Saturday 22 March, at 15:30, Fondazione Zegna president Anna Zegna and Barbara Jodice, the artist’s daughter, will engage in a conversation on The art of black and white.
The series of works, displayed for the first time in an exhibition of the same name by CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin from October 2024 to February 2025, unveils a project that has not yet been presented to the public. This new exhibition at Casa Zegna creates an echo with the surrounding landscape, which we discover is unchanged in its forms and in the lives that still animate it. Mimmo Jodice’s photographs narrate the Oasis and the Wool Mill, their spaces and elements, transfiguring their physiognomy at times and enabling today’s observers to rediscover the enchantments of those places.
The full series of images produced by Mimmo Jodice in Oasi Zegna has over 60 works and can be seen in the exhibition catalogue published by Dario Cimorelli Editore, with an introduction by Anna Zegna, an essay by the curator Walter Guadagnini and a text by Ilaria Bonacossa.
INFORMATION
22 March – 21 April 2025
Mimmo Jodice. Oasi
Curated by Walter Guadagnini with Barbara Bergaglio.
Open every Sunday and on Monday 21 April, from 14:30 to 18:30.
Also open on the FAI Spring Days, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 March, from 10:00 to 17:00.
Tickets: full price 7 euros, reduced rate 5 euros
Saturday 22 March, at 15:30
The art of black and white
Open conversation with Anna Zegna and Barbara Jodice
Sala Quadri | Casa Zegna
Casa Zegna
Via Marconi, 23 – Trivero Valdilana (Biella)
tel. +39 015.7591463 | casazegna@fondazionezegna.org
https://www.fondazionezegna.org/
