Prague showcases Hortus, the fountain of the seven circles of heaven
The “Hortus” Fountain by artist Agostino Iacurci drawing inspiration from the myth of Paradise, is made in enamelled Impruneta terracotta, and is located inside a seven steel-and-neon ring structure reminiscent of Dante’s seven circles of heaven and is exhibited in the Baroque Chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute until the 4th of February. Thanks to […]
Read moreMelbourne hosts the Milano Design Film Festival
This year, the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne will open the 17th edition of the Milano Design Film Festival with a long documentary by Carlos Saura ”Renzo Piano: Architect of Light” and with the film ”The Importance of being an Architect” on Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, partners and co-founders of the famous Milan-based ACPV […]
Read moreBelgrade: the latest in Italian cinema hits the Balkans
Starting January 24 next, Belgrade’s Yugoslav Film Archive is to host the first edition of CinemaItaliaOggi Balcani. Set to become an annual event, the film festival will showcase the best in latest Italian cinema releases. Ten critically acclaimed Italian movies from the past three years are due for screening until January 29. In February, a […]
Read moreHaifa: conference on “Lost female painters”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa is organising the second of a series of four conferences, entitled “The mystery of the lost painters”. The conference, to be held online today and curated by researcher Shuli Feuer Scheinwald, zeroes in on two female artists, included in the group of the major Italian Renaissance painters. The first, […]
Read moreNew Business Matching Platform launched in India
The Embassy of Italy in New Delhi has organised, together with CDP (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti), a virtual event for the launch, in India, of CDP’s Business Matching Platform, which will allow Indian and Italian enterprises to connect and grow by setting up new partnerships, in order to boost business opportunities in the two countries. […]
Read moreTel Aviv, webinar on climate change impact
The Embassy of Italy in Israel and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv have organised a series of online scientific meetings in partnership with The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (a faculty of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev), centred on the relationship between man and mountain, called “So Harsh, So Fragile: […]
Read moreToronto, webinar on the creativity of architect Gio Ponti
The Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto organized a webinar titled “Design To” on the prestigious architect Gio Ponti, to be held on Friday, 21 January, with keynote speaker Fulvio Irace, professor emeritus at the Milan Polytechnic. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was the emblem of Italy as it rose from the rubble of war, having conquered a prominent […]
Read moreMoscow, Danieli signs a 100 million euro contract
The Italian Embassy in Russia was the venue that hosted the signing of the agreement between Danieli Centro Combustion S.p.A. (Genova) and Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works PJSC for the manufacture of four heating furnaces for MMK’s hot rolling mill 2000. The project will be implemented by stages within five years and the overall contract […]
Read moreMoscow presentation of Venezia Panoramica catalogue
The exhibition catalogue for Venezia Panoramica. La scoperta dell’orizzonte infinito is to be presented in Moscow today, January 18, at 7 p.m. The event will be attended by the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Daniela Rizzi. The presentation will also be attended by the exhibition’s curators and catalogue authors Giandomenico Romanelli, Pascalin Vatin and […]
Read moreTunis: two agreements between MACAM and Italian institutions
At the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis, two cooperation agreements have been signed between the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Tunis (MACAM) and two Italian Institutions, namely the Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali and the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. Both agreements aim at multidisciplinary training […]
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