In 2020, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and China, the Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism was announced and finally takes place in 2022, postponed by the pandemic. 2022 also marks the 200th anniversary of Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova’s (1757 – 1822) death. For this occasion, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong is delighted to organize the travelling exhibition Jodice/Canova, hosted at Novalis Contemporary Art Design Gallery, after various stops in Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Arezzo, Mexico City and San Marino.

Jodice/Canova puts in dialogue two Italian artists from different eras: one of the greatest sculptors of the European Neoclassicism and one of the major interpreters of Italian and International contemporary photography; a union that combines the ideal and real, body and soul, matter and image.

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