Exhibition Opening Hours

• Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM (last entry at 7:00 PM)

Special Openings

• December 8, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM (last entry at 7:00 PM)
• December 31, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (last entry at 2:00 PM)
• January 1, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM (last entry at 7:00 PM)
• January 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM (last entry at 7:00 PM)
• February 8, 2025, from 10:00 AM to midnight (last entry at 11:00 PM)
• February 18, 19, 25, 26, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM (last entry at 7:00 PM)

Scheduled Full-Day Closures

• December 23, 24 and 25, 2024

Ticket office Modotti Bologna:

• Full price: € 16
• Reduced price: € 14 (from 6 to 18 years of age, FrecciaRossa trains, over 65 with ID, university students up to 26 years of age with ID, military personnel with ID, tourist guides with ID, practising journalists and journalists with ID who are regularly registered with the Order, disabled accompanying people with disabled people, ICOM and AICS Bologna members with ID, State property employees with badge, ticket holders of the other exhibition in progress at Pallavicini)
• Bologna Welcome Card, Bologna Congress and Card Cultura: € 12
• University Thursday: € 12 (with valid ID card)
• Disabled:€ 12 (with valid certificate)*
  *Car permits are not accepted
• Free: disabled persons in possession of Disability Card issued by INPS *, children under 6.
• Groups: € 12 (min.10 - max.25 people 1 accompanying person free of charge) *.
  * groups must book at info@palazzopallavicini.com and use radio headsets.
• Schools: € 5 *
  *Schools from kindergarten to secondary school are accepted (2 accompanying persons per class and 104 free of charge). Reservations must be made at info@palazzopallavicini.com and radio headsets must be used.
• Open Ticket: € 18 Ticket with reservation without time and date restrictions, valid until the end of the exhibition
• Ligabue - Tina Modotti Single Ticket: €26*.
  * to be used on the same day

Services

• Small pets allowed only in the pet carrier or in arms
• Free unattended coat rack subject to availability

Important Notices: Access for non-ambulant or wheelchair users (non-electric) is only available via a Jolly Ramp D3000010 stairlift provided by TGR, with a weight capacity of up to 140 kg (calculated between person and wheelchair, total weight to be managed by the visitor) for two flights of stairs totaling 38 steps. The complete technical specification is available for download and review at: https://tgr.it/prodotto/jolly-ramp-montascale-mobile-a-cingoli/ Exhibition and Event Contacts - Palazzo Pallavicini

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Independent, free, modern, Tina Modotti combined her love for art and truth with her political fervor, which guided her choices and actions as an activist, with the will to contribute to the creation of a better world. In continuous dialogue with artists and intellectuals throughout the evolution of her expressive periods, Modotti developed a photographic language with an intimate tone, capable of exploring the contradictions of reality to penetrate its secret lyricism. The entirety of the displayed shots reveals, from the very beginning, a new way of observing reality, participatory of the fleetingness of its moments: the articulated path through the rooms aims to invite the observer to a dialogue with their personal conception of time, sometimes still and astonished, sometimes fleeting and elusive.   What emerges strongly is a happy and free Tina (happy because she is free), as she herself writes to Weston in April 1925: a woman with a lively intellect and a surprising capacity for introspection, whose multifaceted nature appears capable of guiding her choices. Organized into six sections, the exhibition aims to show the public the infinite facets of a photographer skilled in setting aside aesthetics to focus on ethics, developing a visually eloquent and personal code, which evolved in a very short time, yet left an indelible mark on the historical and photographic heritage of the early 20th century. The continuous dialogue with the photographs of Edward Weston, a reflection of a dense correspondence between the two artists, narrates Tina's obsession with photographic quality and her repeated will, in a 1929 statement, to objectively record life in all its aspects. Numerous are the biographical photographs, rich in narrative power, among which appear the faces of some well-known personalities of the era and the artistic sphere in which Modotti immersed her soul and found her inspiration: the photographer and her mentor Edward Weston, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, the actress Dolores del Rio, the revolutionary journalist Julio Antonio Mella, the politician Vittorio Vidali. In the spirit of passionate and sincere activism, Tina used the photographic medium as an extension of her own eye, a tool for investigation and social denunciation, with an expressive coherence capable of transcending art to offer it as a gift to life, a life that, according to her own words, continually fought to prevail over art. A true metamorphosis of life into art, which finds its photographic transposition in the famous streets and delicate geometries on display, which Tina attempts to convert into abstraction to preserve them in memory, leaving aside superfluous elements to fervently reach the core of feeling. The intensity of the passion guiding Tina's hand and eye is found among the faces and hands of the Mexican people, protagonists of an entire section, witnesses of a will for change and a necessary awareness, which in her vision rise to icons of the possibility of social redemption. Life, art, and revolution: these are the key words of the shots that capture the symbols of class struggle, workers, women of the people, gatherings, and details. The intense snapshots of the women of Tehuantepec who, walking quickly by nature, narrate Tina's will to search for a new truth and poetic sense in an ancient society that becomes for her an inexhaustible source of creative inspiration; stern, in this sense, are the gazes of the children, who seem to penetrate the lens in an attempt to reach the soul of the photographer. To close the exhibition, finally, a selection of portraits of Tina, including some of those she defined as immortal, made by Edward Weston. In observing them, one seems to hear the echo of Federico Marin's words, who described her as “a mysterious beauty, devoid of vulgarity, but not cheerful, rather austere, terribly austere. Not melancholic, nor tragic.” Charm and mystery remain intact, as the words written in letters, her peculiar gaze, the daring experimentation, place Tina Modotti among the greatest interpreters of the reality of the human condition, captured in its infinite facets. The immersive nature of her shots, resulting from an innate empathy towards the subjects, becomes a voice capable of narrating to the viewer the infinite variety of the world and, simultaneously, its universality.   Texts, insights by: Francesca Bogliolo Archive and Photographs owned by: Maria Domini, Tina Modotti Committee Organized by: Pallavicini Srl by Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni, and Rubens Fogacci Catalog for sale exclusively at Palazzo Pallavicini is produced by: Forum Società Editrice Universitaria Udinese