Ambassador Angeloni attends Italy’s first Metaverse Festival
“Digitalisation and innovation have led our internationalisation and export support strategy”, observed Ambassador Angeloni, the Farnesina’s Director General for Country Promotion, speaking at the first Metaverse Festival in Italy. The event, which took place on 11 October 2022 in Turin, was organised by the Italian Association of Young Innovators (Italian initials ANGI) in collaboration with […]
Read moreContemporary Art Day, Farnesina Collection, presentation of “Magma” by Biasiucci
The site-specific work “Magma” by Antonio Biasiucci was presented at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Saturday 8 October to mark the XVIII edition of Contemporary Art Day in Italy, promoted by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani (Italian contemporary art museums association); the artist was in attendance and the […]
Read more“Hugo Pratt. Legacy, Work and Biography”: a project launched by the Farnesina to promote the Italian language and culture in the world
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) has launched the project: “Hugo Pratt. L’eredità, l’opera e la biografia” (“Hugo Pratt. Legacy, Work, and Biography”) to promote the Italian language and culture in the world through one of Italy’s most important cartoon artists. Promoted by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy in partnership with Cong Sa (the company that holds […]
Read more18th Contemporary Art Day
On the occasion of the 18th edition of the Contemporary Art Day – promoted by AMACI, the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, with support from the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, and collaboration from the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]
Read moreItalian archaeological mission in Ebla resumes
Italy’s Mission at the Archaeological Site of Ebla – Syria’s thousand-year old city discovered by Italian archaeologist Paolo Matthiae in 1964 – has resumed, 12 years after its interruption, caused by the occupation of Al-Qaeda’s rebel militias. The invasion lasted from 2014 to 2019, ravaging the site with tunnels, trenches and small barracks, and totally […]
Read moreThe Farnesina Collection soon to open to the public
At the close of the summer break, the Italian Touring Club’s “Aperti per voi” (“Open for You”) initiative resumes with the opening to the public of the Farnesina, the seat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which first joined the initiative in 2016. The Farnesina’s next opening is scheduled for 30 […]
Read moreFarnesina Collection welcomes Marinella Senatore’s work
The Farnesina Collection welcomes the work of Marinella Senatore (Cava de’ Tirreni, 1977), an exponent of participatory art and one of the most renowned artists on the international stage. The banner, set up in the Farnesina Collection’s gallery dedicated to artistic research in the 21st century, comes from a set of banners of the “Protest […]
Read moreFarnesina Collection displays Giulia Neri’s works
The Farnesina Collection welcomes the works of Giulia Neri (Bologna, 1979). The twenty digital illustrations created between 2020 and 2022 by the Bologna-born illustrator, who graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and has a degree in psychology, add to the recent section – dedicated to graphics, illustration and street art – of […]
Read moreThe Farnesina Collection acquires “Unbinding Creatures” by Camilla Alberti
“Unbinding Creatures. Organismo 10” (2021) by Camilla Alberti (Milan, 1994) is one of the recent acquisitions of the Farnesina Collection. The artist has always worked on relationships and on the hybridization options between different living species and the surrounding space. The series of sculptures and installations – titled “Unbinding Creatures” – reflects “the potential of imagination […]
Read moreThe Farnesina Collection welcomes a new work of art: “80” by Moneyless
Farnesina Collection welcomes “80”, a work by Teo Pirisi, better known as Moneyless, an abstract graffiti artist, illustrator, and designer. The work, displayed in the graphic design gallery of the Farnesina Collection, is directly made on the slate of an old school blackboard that the artist salvaged from being discarded. “What I love of this […]
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