Culture. Eat it
20 October 2015
Seven lifes jus like cats, and maybe more.
Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, as beloved as unknown to most Tina Modotti really lived them. She worked in a textile mill, she was the muse of Neruda, a silent film actress, a photographer, a model of Diego Rivera, a Communist Party activist, a passionate woman … just Tinissima, as her mother used to call her tenderly.
The book Tina Modotti. A Life of Pino Cacucci has the merit of redelivering an almost mythical woman crossing the political history like few people have done before: the America of the ’20s, the Mexico of Zapata, the Spanish Civil War of Communism and Russia. Reading about her life will make us wonder around extraordinary encounters, Edward Weston and Frida Kahlo just to name a few. You will see with her own eyes the many cities she lived in – Paris, Moscow, Vienna, San Francisco – and you will participate in wars, to leakage, the passion for pictures and love. In her life Tina had many lover but only few of them were real love, and anyway they were taken from her always too soon.
In this story, half a biography and half a novel, scenarios and encounters constantly change, but what “really survives” is her, a woman witness of her time, international, thanks to her “photographic eye” who watched the world with curiosity and a wide opened mind.
If you can’t choose when or how to die, Tina decided how to live her life: I put too much art in life and therefore I do not have long to give art. In Udine Casa Cavazzini, from October 18 to February 28, 2016, will present us “Tina Modotti: the new rose. Art, history and humanity “ to remember that what she has given to art has not gone in vain.
Time of the reading: a couple of hours for two weeks
Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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Bio:
She is an art historian, optimistic and empathic by nature. She imagines a world where sow kindness enjoying the little things. She's in love with stories since she was a child, for the Eat Culture she eats books and arts. Per aspera ad astra says the only tattoo on her skin. It reminds her that the road that leads to her dreams is not always easy but that she never gives up.
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