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24 January 2022

Mexico: drawings and paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy

The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosts an original exhibition consisting of a series of drawings and paintings by Gerardo Suzán, inspired by the Divine Comedy and the three canticles Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the first section, “Tres Tiempos (Three Times)’’, organized by the Fundación Lodie por el Arte y la Cultura, in […]

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24 January 2022

Tel Aviv: the Shoah in Italian comics

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in partnership with Mama Comics, presents “Illustrated Memory. The Shoah in Italian Comics”. It is a digital event – running from 17 January to 2 February – that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will offer the possibility to discover how Italian cartoonists related […]

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21 January 2022

Rocco Orlando’s “I fondamentali” on display in Bratislava

Only a few days left to visit the exhibition “I fondamentali”, by artist Valerio Rocco Orlando, staged at the Sumec Gallery in Bratislava by the local Italian Cultural Institute. The modular installation consisting of three neon light sculptures illuminating the exhibition areas poses three questions: “What is the value of art?”, “What is the sense […]

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21 January 2022

Sydney, Italy’s great (and hidden) beauty on display

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney is organising a history and art course to uncover the great beauty of Italy’s lesser known UNESCO World Heritage sites. Guide Kathleen Olive, art historian with a PhD in Italian Studies, will take you on a virtual tour across the sites that are off the beaten track but just […]

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21 January 2022

Teheran, the special report by “Internazionale” dedicated to Iranian literature

Today, the Italian Embassy in Teheran, with the “Internazionale” and the Iranian magazine “Na Dastan”, held a reading event at the residence of Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone featuring Iranian contemporary literature which was the focus of the special report on the Rome-based magazine’s issue N. 1441 in the week from 23 December 2021 – 5 January […]

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20 January 2022

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 […]

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20 January 2022

Melbourne 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 […]

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20 January 2022

Belgrade: 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 […]

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19 January 2022

Haifa: 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, […]

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18 January 2022

Toronto, 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 […]

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18 January 2022

Moscow 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 […]

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17 January 2022

Tunis: 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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