{"id":8209,"date":"2025-08-04T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionezegna.org\/progetti\/stories-of-woods-factories-and-people\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:45:38","slug":"stories-of-woods-factories-and-people","status":"publish","type":"progetti","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionezegna.org\/en\/projects\/stories-of-woods-factories-and-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Jodice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fondazione Zegna<\/strong> is inaugurating a new chapter in its ongoing <strong>commitment to art and nature<\/strong> with <em>Racconti di boschi, di fabbriche and di persone<\/em> (Stories of woods, factories and people), an original exhibition project ideated by artist <strong>Francesco Jodice<\/strong> (Naples, 1967) in collaboration with <strong>Sara Gentile<\/strong> and with curatorship by<strong> Ilaria Bonacossa.<\/strong> The project was commissioned by Fondazione Zegna in line with its roots and historical identity and is one of the initiatives marking the 25th anniversary of its set up. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Saturday 17 May to Sunday 16 November 2025<\/strong>, <strong>Casa Zegna<\/strong> will be hosting an exhibition that brings together <strong>manufacturing<\/strong>, <strong>community<\/strong> and <strong>nature<\/strong> in harmony with themes dear to the Founder and part of its mission. The result is a sensitive and profound reading of the territory that is home to Fondazione Zegna on the part of an acute observer of the evolution of our contemporary social landscape, an artist who has always studied urban anthropological phenomena and the creation of new participatory processes. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francesco Jodice\u2019s images &#8211; often frontal views, sometimes close up, sometimes from a distance &#8211; capture a world of forms and lines, natural and artificial, whose frankness provokes amazement at <strong>what\u2019s already known to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe three stories and the cultural landscapes they describe are intimately intertwined: the pattern that emerges is an integral part of this territory\u2019s identity,\u201d<\/em> explains Francesco Jodice.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francesco Jodice\u2019s project comes <strong>nearly 20 years after the work that Mimmo Jodice did (in 2008) in the same territory,<\/strong> offering a portrait of the landscapes of Oasi Zegna and the interiors of the wool mill (Lanificio Ermenegildo Zegna). The resulting narrative is a new rendering of the place\u2019s essence and identity: <strong>two different aspects of the same territory<\/strong>, a place which, like them, exists in a never-ending natural evolution. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioning art innervates the place like an eye-catching thread in a precious fabric, connecting generations, visions, transformations. It\u2019s these bonds \u2013 between father and son, memory and project \u2013 that constitute the territory\u2019s identity, in a potentially endless narration. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A dialogue between memory and future<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition turns the spaces in Casa Zegna into a living environment, a contemplative place in which photography is a tool for exploring identity, roots and change.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To actively engage the younger generation, Casa Zegna is organizing a series of <strong>workshops for local school students<\/strong>, building a bridge between the past and the future and offering young people the opportunity to reinterpret the landscape and values of the community in which they live.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","timeline":[184],"categoria-progetti":[],"class_list":["post-8209","progetti","type-progetti","status-publish","hentry","timeline-184"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Francesco Jodice - Fondazione Zegna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionezegna.org\/en\/projects\/stories-of-woods-factories-and-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Francesco Jodice - Fondazione Zegna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fondazione Zegna is inaugurating a new chapter in its ongoing commitment to art and nature with Racconti di boschi, di fabbriche and di persone (Stories of woods, factories and people), an original exhibition project ideated by artist Francesco Jodice (Naples, 1967) in collaboration with Sara Gentile and with curatorship by Ilaria Bonacossa. 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