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18 October 2019
Dhaka, a group exhibition to celebrate Contemporary Art Day

The Contemporary Art Day was celebrated in Dhaka with a group exhibition of Italian and Bangladeshi artists organised by the Italian Embassy with the support of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and in association with the Venice-based publishing company Lightbox. For three days, the artists of the two Countries exchanged ideas and prospects in a number […]

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17 October 2019
Contemporary Art Day: Seoul, from Arte Povera to the present day

The Seoul Italian Cultural Institute organised two events with Fabio Cavallucci, the main curator of the Biennale of City Planning / Architecture in Shenzhen, China to celebrate the 15th Contemporary Art Day.  Cavallucci, former Director of Prato’s Pecci Contemporary Art Centre and of the Contemporary Art Centre in Warsaw, addressed an audience of professionals and students presenting […]

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Diplomatic Network
17 October 2019
​Vancouver: Focus on Italy at the Film Festival

‘Focus on Italy’ is the event that has put Italy in the limelight at the 38th edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival, the largest and most important film festival in Canada after the one in Toronto.   Every year, the Vancouver Festival, a.k.a. the “Hollywood of the North”, screens more than 300 films from 80 […]

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Diplomatic Network
16 October 2019
Sydney: two Italian films at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival

This year, two Italian films will be screened at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival of Sydney, an event now at its ninth edition and with a consolidated fame at both national and international level. As every year, the Italian Cultural Institute offered its cooperation to the festival, which will present a selection of the best […]

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Diplomatic Network
16 October 2019
Leonardo goes digital in the historical centre of Jeddah

The exhibition entitled “LEONARDO DA VINCI. Masterpieces and Flying machines” opened in one of the most beautiful palaces in the historical centre of Jeddah. Organized by the Consulate General of Italy in Jeddah, the exhibition features stunning digital reproductions of paintings and drawings on flying machines by the genius of the Italian Renaissance who died […]

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Diplomatic Network
14 October 2019
The Day of Contemporary Art in Madrid: Marina Ballo Charmet’s gaze

“The background noise of our mind”, a “peripheral vision” that focuses on empty space, on anonymous, inexpressive elements, caught “out of the corner of the eye”: this is Marina Ballo Charmet’s area of research. Her photos and videos focus on forms and objects of our everyday life, captured in their unexpected solitude. The exhibition ‘Fuori campo‘, organized […]

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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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