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Events
11 October 2019
Tehran celebrates Italy’s Contemporary Art Day

​The National Museum of Iran is the prestigious setting that the Italian Embassy in Tehran has chosen to showcase two most important works of art by Bijan Bassiri, an Italian-Iranian artist: a sculpture entitled “Meteorite” and “Nottambulo”, a diptyc. The exhibit, curated by Bruno Corà, an art historian and critic and President of the Burri […]

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Diplomatic Network
11 October 2019
Addis Ababa hosts Maison Gattinoni for fashion week

The Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa and the Maison Gattinoni Couture organised a tableau vivant of the Spring/Summer 2020 collection and a historical fashion exhibition dedicated to the “Hollywood divas on the Tiber” to celebrate the fashion week in Ethiopia. This event, which is fast becoming the main fashion event in Ethiopia and East Africa […]

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Events
10 October 2019
Celebrating Italy’s Contemporary Art Day in Hanoi, Vietnam

To mark the Italian Contemporary Art Day, the  Italian Ambassador’s Residence in Hanoi will open its doors to the public on Friday and Saturday next offering visitors an opportunity to admire the art collection the residence hosts.   The collection is composed of 25 works by 18 artists representing different art schools and movements: Carlo […]

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Events
9 October 2019
19th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World​

The 19th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World was presented today at the headquarters of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome. This year the event will be dedicated to “the Italian language on stage”. From 21 to 27 October, the Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes will promote the study and […]

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Diplomatic Network
8 October 2019
Tunis: The “Atlantic Code” Exhibition by Corrado Veneziano

The pictorial work with which Corrado Veneziano reinvented the Atlantic Code by Leonardo da Vinci, the largest collection of drawings and writings of the Italian genius, arrives in Tunis, guest of the Italian Cultural Institute. The exhibition celebrates the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death. After the inauguration in Amboise and after the exhibition at […]

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Events
8 October 2019
Madrid celebrates the world of Mario Merz​

​An installation by Mario Merz on display at the Italian Embassy in Madrid inaugurates the “Contemporary Day”. The work, exhibited at the Palacio de Amboage, headquarters of the Embassy, is the ‘overturned bottle’ made available courtesy of the Mario Merz Foundation on the occasion of the retrospective “El tiempo es mudo”, which the Reina Sofía […]

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In detail
8 October 2019
Belgrade: “Contemporary Day” dedicated to Luigi Di Sarro

Contemporary Day is an initiative which promotes the world of contemporary art with a special emphasis on Italian culture. ​The Italian Cultural Institute of Belgrade participates in this event with an exhibition dedicated to Luigi Di Sarro. The exhibition “Theater in the form of photography ‘, organized on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the […]

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Events
7 October 2019
Open Doors at the Farnesina to mark Contemporary Art Day

An Open Doors Day will be held at the Farnesina on 12 October for the annual edition of Contemporary Art Day, the event now at its 15th edition organised to celebrate and disseminate Italian contemporary art. Promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums  (AMACI) with the support of the MiBACT, the Day will see all […]

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Diplomatic Network
7 October 2019
Hanoi: Italian-Vietnamese Forum on Higher Education

Hanoi hosted the Italian-Vietnamese Forum on Higher Education. The event, organised by the Italian Embassy and by the Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, in association with Uni-Italia Vietnam and Van Lang University, tackled themes relative to the mobility of students, researchers and professors, joint research projects, financing options, visa-related issues, and the creation of […]

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Diplomatic Network
4 October 2019
Conference for the 60th anniversary of Italian Studies at the University of Skopje

The organization of an international conference entitled “Italian studies in the new millennium: new challenges in linguistics, literature and cultural research” was the result of a fruitful cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Skopje and the Department of Italian Language and Literature of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. The conference, which took place on 27 and […]

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Diplomatic Network
4 October 2019
Paris hosts the exhibition entitled: ‘Recovered Treasures – the art of saving art’

The Unesco headquarters in Paris will host an exhibition of art masterpieces  recovered, in fifty years of activities, by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage . The exhibit, which will run until 17 October,  opened on 3 October and was attended by the Director General of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, Italy’s Permanent Representative Massimo Riccardo, […]

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