Milan, Mudec
March 28, 2024 to July 28, 2024
Monday 2:30 pm – 7:30 pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 9:30 am – 7:30 pm; Thursday and Saturday 9:30 am – 10:30 pm
The guided tour of the exhibition “Tattoo. Stories from the Mediterranean” hosted by Mudec in Milan is a journey through time to discover an artistic practice, much in vogue today but born in remote prehistory, with a geographical focus placed on Italy and the Mediterranean area.
Finds, reproductions of films and projections of photographs will mark the exhibition path between the various centuries, which will allow us to fully understand the methods of execution and the various meanings that were and still are attributed to the drawings made on the body. An intense experience that will begin with Ötzi, the first known tattooed human being, and will end by addressing the great significance of spiritual tattooing for Kurdish women in Syrian refugee camps.
We will discover that tattooing is not a mere aesthetic decoration, but a practice that encompasses numerous meanings that have been enriched over the various centuries in conjunction with historical events: it was used to identify a certain status of belonging, even in a forced way, as happened to slaves or people who had dishonored their duties or family, for therapeutic purposes or to mark a certain connection with a religious belief or spiritual force.
The guided tour dedicated to the exhibition “Tattoo. Stories from the Mediterranean” is an interesting opportunity to discover the evolution of this particular practice of skin coloring that contains in itself an ancient and contemporary history still to be explored.
Tickets: Full price 27.00€/Under 18 23.00€