PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE
Press Conference “La Grande Visione Italiana.
Collezione Farnesina”.
Farnesina – 26 January 2023, 4 p.m.
The Press Conference entitled “La Grande Visione Italiana. Collezione Farnesina” (“The Great Italian Vision. Farnesina Collection”), which will launch the travelling exhibition organised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy and curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, will take place at the Farnesina, Sala Aldo Moro, on Thursday 26 January at 4 p.m.
The event, which will be hosted by Undersecretary of State Maria Tripodi and opened by the Director General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano, will be attended by the curator of the exhibition Achille Bonito Oliva and Ambassador Umberto Vattani, creator of the Collection.
“The Great Italian Vision. Farnesina Collection” is a unique journey through the history of Italian art from the 20th century to the present day, featuring seventy-two works by great artists – from Carla Accardi to Fortunato Depero, from Mimmo Jodice to Michelangelo Pistoletto, from Mario Merz to Gilberto Zorio – included in the Farnesina Collection, an extraordinary collection of contemporary art belonging to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Since the late 1990s, this public institution has passionately and painstakingly built up a dynamic collection that bears witness to the richness of a cultural heritage that also lives on in the spaces of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Rome, with museum-level exhibition activity.
A bilingual catalogue has been produced together with Silvana Editoriale for the exhibition. It includes institutional and critical texts with contributions by Achille Bonito Oliva, Cristiana Collu, Valentino Catricalà, Paola Marino, Luca Massimo Barbero, Angela Tecce and an interview by Paola Damiani with Ambassador Umberto Vattani, which retraces all the milestones of the Farnesina Collection.
The exhibition intends to present Italian artistic identity to the international public at large, as witnessed through works selected from the Farnesina Collection according to a thematic rather than chronological itinerary.
These are the stages: Singapore – February 2023, Tokyo – March 2023, New Delhi – May 2023 and finally Seoul – July 2023. The exhibition will be held in a double venue, both institutional and public, opening a dialogue between Italian Embassies/Cultural Institutes and important museums.
There will be no live coverage of the event on the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ social media channels.
Journalists, photographers and cameramen interested in covering the Press Conference may apply for accreditation by sending their request by Thursday 26 January 2023 at 11 a.m. to the following e-mail address accreditamentostampa@esteri.it (Tel. 06 3691 3432 – 8573 or 3078), attaching the following:
For representatives of the Italian press:
- copy of an identity document;
- letter of assignment from the newspaper of affiliation or – in the absence of the latter – copy of professional identity card.
For representatives of foreign press organisations, not accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
- copy of an identity document;
- letter from the newspaper of affiliation;
- Verbal note of the Embassy in Rome of the country of the press organisation represented.
For representatives of foreign press already accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the accreditation request must be sent with a copy of an identity document attached.
Accredited journalists, photographers and cameramen may enter the Farnesina from the main entrance, left side, on 26 January 2023 from 3:15 to 3:45 p.m.
The use of FFP2 masks is encouraged.
Submitting the above-mentioned personal data means authorising the use thereof in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 and the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679) by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the data controller, for strictly professional purposes and/or purposes related to the performance of the event in question.
