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26 February 2015
Algiers – Christian Leotta brings Beethoven’s sonatas

Pianist Christian Leotta brought the first 8 of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s piano sonatas to Algiers in a recital at the Auditorium of the Radio. The event was a premier for Africa, and the first phase in a project created by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the ‘Aissa Messaoudi’ Cultural Centre for the execution […]

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26 February 2015
UK – Science and Uni cooperation grows

Italian ambassador to the London Pasquale Terracciano was at the University of Cambridge for a series of meetings focused on boosting Italian studies at that British university complex, later visiting the Fitzwilliam Museum, where two bronze statues on loan to the museum were recently attributed to Michelangelo. The ambassador then went on to the Language Department, […]

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25 February 2015
Argentina – Growth in Medical Cooperation

Italy and Argentina are contributing to the further development of collaboration in the field of medicine. A fourth cooperation framework agreement between the Italian Gastroenterologists Association and its Argentine counterpart, signed in the presence of the Italian ambassador to Buenos Aires Teresa Cataldo, is intended to promote youth training exchanges, joint clinical trials and joint […]

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25 February 2015
Riga – Italian portraits from the Bologna Museum

An exhibition opened in Riga entitled “Two centuries of Italian portraits, 1580-1780”; a display of 40 late-Mannerist and Baroque works by a variety of Italian masters, including Guido Reni, Guercino, the Carracci brothers and Lavina Fontana, from the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna. The exhibition, hosted by the city’s Museum of the Bourse, will run through […]

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24 February 2015
Sydney -“Out of the Box”, l’arte di Silvia Tuccimei in mostra in Australia

“Out of the Box” è il titolo della mostra che la scultrice e pittrice Silvia Tuccimei presenterà presso l’Istituto italiano di cultura di Sydney dal 5 marzo al 10 aprile. L’artista ha anche partecipato con una delle sue opere all’edizione 2013 di “Sculpture by the Sea”, la mostra che viene allestita ogni anno lungo la […]

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24 February 2015
Ecuador – Italian kinetic art

A selection of the works ofthe most prominent of the legendary optical and kinetic art movement betweenthe 1950s and 70s, from Bruno Munari to artists still active such as GetulioAlviani will be on display from 28 February through 19 April at the Centro deArte Contemporaneo of Quito. The exhibition of 50 collages, videos, sculpturesand other […]

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24 February 2015
Cianfarani – Major Italy-Pakistan trade potential

Trade relations between Italy and Pakistan have great potential for development in various sectors ofmutual interest, according to Italian ambassador to Pakistan Adriano Chiodi Cianfarani, who recently visited the eastern city of Lahore. His agenda included a meeting with the Italian Development Committee, which promotes andstrengthens the age-old trade relations between the two nations. The […]

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24 February 2015
Cianfarani – Major Italy-Pakistan trade potential

Trade relations between Italy and Pakistan have great potential for development in various sectors ofmutual interest, according to Italian ambassador to Pakistan Adriano Chiodi Cianfarani, who recently visited the eastern city of Lahore. His agenda included a meeting with the Italian Development Committee, which promotes andstrengthens the age-old trade relations between the two nations. The […]

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23 February 2015
Mexico – The poetry of Massimo Rizzante

The auditorium of Mexico City’s Italian Cultural Institute will host a presentation by poet, academic and translator Massimo Rizzante entitled “Poetry and the world of prose”. Juan Villoro Rizzante, who currently teaches Italian contemporary literature and comparative literature at the University of Trent, will deliver the introduction. He has directed the International Seminar on the […]

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23 February 2015
Washington – Great names of the Italian Renaissance on show in the USA

Renaissance Florence will soon take centre stage in the panorama of cultural events in New York thanks with the exhibition “Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance masterpieces from Florence Cathedral”. The exhibition opens on 20 February 2015 at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA). Organized in collaboration with the Museo dell’Opera di Santa Maria […]

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20 February 2015
Paris – Chefs and terroir: Italian cooking at the Cultural Institute

Tasty events are being organised at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris to promote tourism and Italian food and wine, not least in the run-up to EXPO Milan 2015. “Italians in the Kitchen” is a monthly initiative introduced in September 2013, when the Institute’s new kitchen opened its doors to visiting chefs, including Gianfranco Vissani, […]

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