Mimmo Jodice

Résumé du livre

"By juxtaposing photographs of famous painted portraits in the museum with those of Louvre employees, the artist aims to abolish time and to eliminate the difference between painting and photography. The eyes of the characters in these portraits are aligned at the same height, their gazes directed at the viewer. Mimmo Jodice's goal is not simply to create analogies between portraits of living people and painted portraits from the past, but also to restore life, soul, and personality to bygone figures and confer new status to the subjects of the photographic portraits of today"--Musee du Louvre web site.