Portugal – “Quasi tutto”, anthology of Giorgio Griffa in Porto

‎Italian painter Giorgio Griffa’s artworks are on display in Portugal for the first time in Porto’s Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves. The anthology, entitled “Quasi tutto” (Almost everything), was organised by the museum in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The exhibition consists of a vast selection of more than 40 paintings […]

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Athens – The Italian Embassy hosts the Garden of Sculptures

The Italian Embassy in Athens is hosting the exhibition “Forme, Colori, Materiali: il Giardino delle Sculture” (Forms, Colours, Materials: The Garden of Sculptures) until September 15. The exhibition displays the work of a group of students from Athens’ Academy of Fine Arts. It will be open to the public on Thursdays. The initiative aims to […]

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Syria: Farnesina expresses concern over the situation in Eastern Aleppo

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expresses concern over the situation in Eastern Aleppo, which is presently under siege and systematically bombed by regime forces that spare nothing and nobody on their way. Air strikes continue to hit hospitals, schools and markets causing a very high number of casualties among civilians.   […]

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Italy, the United States and innovation. The Foreign Ministry participates in the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US an Italian Innovation Systems: finding better ways to learn from each other, Trieste, 28 July 2016

Juxtaposing the economic and industrial scenario in the U.S. with the one of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which features dynamic and innovative SMEs, with a view to relaunching scientific, technological and industrial cooperation across the Atlantic. This is the central theme of the Innovation Forum – Driving changes for US and Italian Innovation Systems: finding better […]

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Minister Paolo Gentiloni meets with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Yun Byung-Se. Korea will open a Cultural Institute in Italy next October​

This morning at Villa Madama, Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, received YUN Byung-se, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. Mr Gentiloni and Mr YUN Byung-se took stock of the excellence of the current bilateral relations between Italy and the Republic of Kore in every sector of […]

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Dublin – The “Aquileia: the Crossroads of the Empire” exhibition stops in Ireland

Aquileia was founded in 181 BC in the North-East of the Italian Peninsula and was vested with military, economic and commercial functions. Its excellent location, a well-equipped river port and commercial and cultural relations with both the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe, turned it into Italy’s fourth-largest and most important city and in the ninth-largest […]

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Italy and Brazil strengthen bilateral cooperation

‎Italy’s Ambassador to Brazil, Antonio Bernardini, and the President of Banco do Brasil, Paulo Rogério Caffarelli, discussed future strategies for the Working Group recently launched by the embassy in support of Italian businesses that have taken an interest in Brazil’s logistics, infrastructure, and energy programme.  Ambassador Bernardini and President Caffarelli talked on the sidelines of […]

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Poland – The Renaissance in Northern Italy on show in Warsaw

‎The National Museum in Warsaw is hosting a selection of Renaissance paintings from the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery in Brescia. The section includes works by Moretto, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Giovan Battista Moroni, Raphael, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition “Brescia. Il Rinascimento nell’Italia del nord” (Brescia: the Renaissance in Northern Italy) will run until Aug. […]

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Law No. 125/2014: Joint Development Cooperation Committee convenes for the 5th time

Today the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mario Giro, chaired the fifth meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee, the deliberative body of Italian Cooperation established by Law No. 125/2014. During today’s meeting the Committee passed 18 deliberations worth nearly 50 million euros, subdivided between tied aid and voluntary contributions to international […]

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OSCE: Italy elected to 2018 chairmanship

With a unanimous decision, the 57 participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) elected Italy to its chairmanship in 2018. “This decision fully represents the recognition of our country’s commitment and the desire to actively contribute to peace and stability in Europe,” stated Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni. In a […]

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Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, received at the Farnesina the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez

During the meeting, Minister Gentiloni emphasized that Italy is closely following the evolving situation in Venezuela, in the light of the strong ties between the two Countries and of the large Italian community residing there. Minister Gentiloni also drew Minister Rodriguez’s attention on the increasing difficulties faced by the Italian community, especially in terms of […]

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Malta – Italian Cultural Institute confers the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016”​ to three fashion designers

On 23 July, Salvatore Schirmo, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in La Valletta, conferred the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016” to Italian fashion designers Gianni Molaro and Carlo Alberto Terranova and to Maltese designer Luke Azzopardi. The award ceremony was the highlight of the ”Gran Gala of Fashion”, an event held in […]

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