ITALY-ETHIOPIA – Artists united in ‘Heart to Hearth’

Rome and Addis Ababa unite in “Heart to Heart”, an exhibition that brings together 5 Italian and 6 Ethiopian artists in a friendly dialogue embracing painting, drawing, photography and video to explore contemporary interdependence and globalisation themes. Curated by Meskerem Assegued, the show is hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa and runs […]

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JAPAN – Leonardo’s genius displayed in Tokyo

The opening of the exhibition “Leonardo, portrait of a genius”, an exhibit of works from the Ambrosiana Library of Milan shown for the first time in Japan, was a great success. 109 paintings, drawings, manuscripts and books The exhibition, mounted by at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, includes 109 paintings, drawings, manuscripts and books from the […]

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POLAND – Italian Cinema a success

The second edition of the new Italian Cinema Festival, organized in collaboration with the CineCittà Luce Institute in Warsaw, Lodz and Gdansk was a major public and critical success. Read more, in Italian.

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Prime Minister and interim Foreign Minister Mario Monti received Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Samuel Santos López at Palazzo Chigi

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PARIS – Evening to honour Pistoletto at Italian Embassy

Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the leaders of the Arte Povera movement, and to whom the Louvre will open its doors through 3 September, donated a piece of his “Terzo Paradiso” to the gardens of the Italian Embassy in Paris, where an evening in honour of the sculptor was hosted on 23 April by Ambassador Giandomenico […]

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SEOUL – Italian jewelry showcased

Italian jewelry was showcased at Jewelry Fair Korea 2013, in an exhibition curated by the ICE-Agency Office in Seoul in which the four main Italian jewelry producing districts (Valenza, Arezzo-Firenze, Vicenza and Caserta-Napoli) were represented. Read more, in Italian.

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POLONIA – Works from Farnesina collection exhibited

Works from the Farnesina Collection of Contemporary Art were displayed in an exhibition in Torun, Poland entitled “Artisti della collezione Farnesina – Carla Accardi – Smarrire i fili della voce”: 30 pieces by the Sicilian artist in various periods of her development. Read more, in Italian.

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Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station

Brand new vehicles and a fundamental instrument for radio communication to lead the population of Puntland toward a future of renewed development: a ceremony was held in Garowe, the capital of the North East region of Somalia, on 21 April for the official presentation of 15 Toyota 4x4s to the local police and of a […]

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Deputy Minister Dassù at the 2nd National Forum of the Valore D Association

Deputy Minister Marta Dassù spoke this afternoon in Rome at the 2nd Forum nazionale dell’Associazione Valore D dedicated to the theme “Toward a new equilibrium. Profit. Respect. Leadership”, an annual encounter with institutions and major representatives of economic, academic and corporate spheres on gender issues. Women in diplomacy – an encouraging trend The Deputy Minister […]

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NATO ministerial – Monti: multiply efforts toward democratic transition in Lybia

NATO’s participation in the training of Libyan security forces and the reintegration of armed militias was one of the proposals on the table of the Atlantic Alliance foreign ministers meeting in Brussels this morning a few hours from the attack on the French embassy in Tripoli. Premier and interim Foreign Minister Mario Monti expressed Italy’s […]

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MAPUTO – Amb. Vellano awards “Nosside” poetry prize

Preparations are under way in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo, for International Book Day. The Italian embassy has planned an event dedicated to poetry, with a group of “friends” of the Italian language and culture, at which Ambassador Roberto Vellanowill announce the winner of the “Nosside” international poetry prize sponsored by UNESCO. Read more, in […]

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PANAMA – Imprese italiane protagoniste a Expocomer (in translation)

Si e’ svolta la scorsa settimana a Panama, alla presenza del presidente Ricardo Martinelli, la XXXI edizione di Expocomer, la fiera multisettoriale piu’ importante della regione centroamericana. Per l’Europa hanno partecipato imprese italiane, spagnole, britanniche e francesi.In particolare, per l’Italia erano presenti una decina di imprese principalmente nei settori dell’abbigliamento, alimentare, vinicolo, bigiotteria e smaltimento […]

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