Francesco Jodice
GALERIE DAVIDE DI MAGGIO, BERLIN

The artist exhibits some of his most important projects in Berlin. On the first floor of the gallery he will show the series of photographs What We want (1997-2004), a monitoring of the townscape seen as a projection of people's desires, in fifty metropolises all over the world. The ground floor will feature The Secret Traces (1998-2004) an investigation of the nature of citizenship and the fact of belonging to a clan, a special gang.
The Galerie Davide Di Maggio - Mudimadue presents the first solo exhibition of Francesco Jodice in Berlin.
Born in Naples in 1967, Jodice investigates the relations between new social conducts and the changes of the urban landscape in contemporary metropolises. In 1995 his experimental dissertation in architecture focused on video culture as instrument for territorial meta-design. He was one of the founders of the Multiplicity group, an international network of artists and architects, with which he presented the Solid Sea project at the Documenta XI in Kassel (2002), and the work ''Border Device'' at the 50th Venice Biennal (2003). He has written and directed the short ''The Gift'' together with his brother Sebastiano, and teaches ''theory and practice of technological image'' at the faculty of Design and Visual Arts in Bolzano. He has worked and exhibited in Europe, Japan, United States, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and will partecipate at the Third Liverpool Biennal next september. He lives in Milan.
Francesco Jodice exhibits some of his most important projects in Berlin. On the first floor of the gallery he will show the series of photographs What We want (1997-2004), a monitoring of the townscape seen as a projection of people's desires, in fifty metropolises all over the world. The ground floor will feature The Secret Traces (1998-2004) an investigation of the nature of citizenship and the fact of belonging to a clan, a special gang. The ''secret traces'' are thus a sequence of individuals, chosen randomly, who have been shadowed from point A to point B of an infinity of metropolises. The confrontation, the comparison, between some of these reveal a familiarity of gestures and functions, a dissonance of behaviors and meanings. And finally the two works of the Nature series: The Crandall Case (2002) and the Monte Maggiore Case (2004). The first retraces one of the most atrocious mass murders in American history, the massacre perpetrated by Wyley gates in 1986, killing his family in East Chatham (Columbia County). Jodice has photographed the homes and the locations where the multiple homicide has taken place, after having reconstructed the itinerary of the tragic event on a map. He has used the same investigation method during his visit of the Monte Maggiore forest near Caserta (''one of those places that one only enters by passing an invisible line, beyond which only nature exists'') where five aged persons who had gone for a walk have dissapeared between 2 October 1998 and 29 November 2002.

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