Women, Mexico and freedom in the new exhibition on Tina Modotti

From Saturday 1st May to Sunday 7th November Mudec presents the exhibition Tina Modotti. Women, Mexico and freedom, dedicated to the great Italian photographer and activist.

An emancipated and modern figure

Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, activist and actress, has left an indelible mark on the history of contemporary photography.
Her famous shots, which make up the collections of the most important museums in the world, are the symbol of an emancipated and modern woman, whose photographic art is inextricably linked to her social commitment. Very poor and forced to emigrate, Tina could have pursued a career as an actress, and exploited her rare beauty for the easy obtaining of economic comforts but her choice of freedom instead led her to study and deepen her innate artistic skills. Tina expressed her idea of ​​freedom through photography and civil commitment especially in Mexico, a country that had welcomed her and of which she became an icon, but soon went beyond the borders of the Americas, to be recognized on the world art scene.

During his short life, together with his comrade Vittorio Vidali, he worked on the front line for a freer and more just humanity, to bring relief to civilian victims of conflicts such as the Spanish War.

She will never be able to return to her beloved homeland due to her anti-fascist activities and an untimely death at the age of 46, to which artists such as Picasso, Rafael Alberti and Pablo Neruda who dedicated her paid tribute a famous poem.

The project in the schedule “The talents of women”

As part of the 2020 schedule of the Municipality of Milan “The talents of women”, the exhibition offers a hundred photographs, original prints to the silver salts of the seventies, letters, documents you and videos that will bring the public closer to this free spirit who went through misery and fame, art and political passion, arrests and persecutions, but who aroused admiration for the full and constant respect for herself, her thought and her freedom.

Tickets

It is possible to buy tickets for the exhibition on the Mudec website.