the first European festival on creativity

2015 Programme

Event #30

Mimmo Jodice, Roberto Koch

Magic acts of vision

The event has been moved from Chiostro di San Francesco to Auditorium I.I.S. Parentucelli-Arzelà

A long and fascinating photographic voyage through Italy, as viewed through the privileged perspective of Mimmo Jodice. Guided by Roberto Koch, one of Italy’s most brilliant and important photographers will retrace the most significant steps in his career, which has been characterised by a constant attention for observation, by his inexhaustible calling for experimentation – also inspired by the work of painters such as Carrà, de Chirico and Magritte – and by a permanent regard for the classical world. Free to roam the horizon, as well as the maze of his own memories, Jodice has never stopped discovering and marvelling before the multi-faceted portrait of a nation, Italy, which thanks to his point of view, among others, has become a symbol of universal beauty.

Mimmo Jodice is one of the biggest names in Italian photography. He lives in Naples, where he was born in 1934. He was among the inexhaustible leaders of the cultural debate that led to the affirmation of Italian photography on an international level. His photographs have been displayed in the most important museums worldwide. He has written many books, including Perdersi a guardare (2007) and La camera incantata (2013), both published by Contrasto.

Roberto Koch

is an editor, curator and photographer, and he organises cultural events linked to photography. He has led the agency Contrasto, the most important Italian photography production house, since 1986; since 1994 he has also directed the publishing house Cotrasto, which has released more than 400 books devoted to international photography. He is the conceptual designer and president of Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia in Milan.

2015 Programme

Event #30

Mimmo Jodice, Roberto Koch

Magic acts of vision

Augustus: the political ethics of a republican monarch

The secret ingredient of life

An act of humanity to be performed

Anna Bonaiuto reads Elena Ferrante

A slow story

The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism

Beyond the boundaries of Babel

Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning

How the sense of Us is born: from We-go to Ego

Generation 2.0

We're the Africans

In my name

Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.

The mountain and silence

In praise of the best student in class

Mothers

Mothers

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Can books change the world?

LA LA LA. When there is no answer

The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons

Returning to the garden

Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running

Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible

“Borderline” kids meet the adult world

A painting for freedom

Cruciverba volant (unbuckle your seatbelts)

Magic acts of vision

Theatres of memory between enchantment and utopia

Our careers as readers

The aviator’s tale

Into the wild