The Italian Cultural Institute in Sao Paulo presented a dense calendar of events for the end of September, offering a multi-faceted panorama of the Italian world of art.
From 23 September to 21 December, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sao Paulo will host an exhibition on Umberto Boccioni, with a special focus on the story of the emblematic sculpture “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, whose original plaster mould is kept at the same museum. The exhibition also highlights the extraordinary importance that the futurist vanguard had in redesigning Brazilian culture at the beginning of the 20th century and will be topped by an international in-depth seminar on the subject.
The 25th of September was the day of the opening of the 13th edition of the Italian Film Festival, organised by the Chamber of Commerce at the Auditorium of Parco Ibirapuera, at the presence of Ambassador Antonio Bernardini. The festival, which will end on 3 October, opened with “Like a Cat on a Highway” (“Come un gatto in tangenziale”) by Riccardo Milani. The Festival was enriched with a photographic exhibition and a retrospective dedicated to Sofia Loren, which were inaugurated by Consul General Filippo La Rosa on 17 September at the Museum of Image and Sound.
The second edition of the Italian Film Fest opened on 24 of September with the screening of “The Truth Lies in Heaven” (“La verità sta in cielo”) by Roberto Faenza. The week-long Film Fest also presents a photographic exhibition on Monica Vitti at the Unibes Cultural Center.
Another Festival displayed the work of the great Palermo-born photographer, Letizia Battaglia, who had a meeting with the public also in view of her solo exhibition that, after Rio, will be displayed at the Instituto Moreira Salles of Sao Paulo at the beginning of 2019.
On 27 and 28 September, the Department of Architecture of the University of Sao Paulo held an international seminar dedicated to ‘Bruno Zevi and Latin America’ with a large participation of Italian experts.
Over the past few weeks, the Italian Cultural Institute also presented a programme of musical performances featuring Italian artists such as pianist Giovanni Guidi and multi-instrumentalist Luca Velottiche, who performed in locations traditionally dedicated to jazz music.
On Wednesday, 19 September, the programme scheduled a performance by the Quartetto di Venezia, who offered a repertory of chamber music spanning from Boccherini to Mozart and Beethoven in the Auditorium of the Museum of Art.
