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Diplomatic Network
1 February 2019
The Farnesina Collection travels to India

The Farnesina Collection will travel to India to kick off the major contemporary art event in New Delhi: the India Art Fair 2019. Thanks to the initiative promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC), 13 works from the Collection will be exhibited first in the Indian capital, from 31 January to 3 February, and then […]

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Diplomatic Network
1 February 2019
Filming Italy-Los Angeles: Italy used as a film setting

Claudia Cardinale, an icon of style and beauty, was the guest star at the fourth edition of Filming Italy – Los Angeles, which was attended by personalities from Italy’s and Hollywood’s film industries, and that has just closed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles and at the Harmony Gold Theater.  By promoting Italian film productions, Filming Italy – […]

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Diplomatic Network
31 January 2019
Stockholm: exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the 19th Century”

Acknowledgement must be given to Italian artist Alessandro Morani for the record that still exists of paintings that decorated Etruscan tombs between the 7th and the 13th century BC, since he copied those paintings in a series of watercolors.  The exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the […]

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Diplomatic Network
30 January 2019
Bicycle Thieves film at the PuSh in Vancouver

A new take on Vittorio de Sica’s masterpiece ‘Bicycle Thieves’, with live musical and voice accompaniment, was performed for two evenings at PuSh, the international festival in Vancouver, now in its 15th year. The Italian Consulate General, in association with the Italian Cultural Centre, organised the screening. The neorealist film was shown without sound and with […]

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Diplomatic Network
29 January 2019
Holocaust Memorial Day. Commemoration by the Representative of Italy to NATO

The Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council, in partnership with the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress, commemorated the victims of the Shoah in Brussels. Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and a large representation of Ambassadors of the Alliance, including Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, met at NATO headquarters for the […]

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Diplomatic Network
28 January 2019
Remembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world

Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019.  The centenary of Levi’s birth has provided the opportunity to […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2019
A photography exhibition, “Un bagaglio leggero”, opens in Tokyo

Two Italian photographers travelled through Japanese cities taking photos with mobile phones instead of their professional cameras. The photographic exhibition entitled ‘Un bagaglio leggero’ by Giorgio Cosulich de Pecine e Giulio Napolitano, gives a visual rendering of the artists’ journey. It opened at the Tokyo Italian Cultural Institute on 23 January, where it will run until 9 […]

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Diplomatic Network
24 January 2019
A poetic and visionary survey of Naples at the ICC in Paris

              To give an original account of Naples starting from the foothills of the Vesuvius turned completely yellow by the colonisation of the Mount Etna broom is the idea of the ‘Naples, Three Of Three’ exhibition by young artist Matilde De Feo, which opened at the Italian Cultural Institute […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 January 2019
The Italian Embassy commemorates Jan Palach in Prague

The Italian Embassy in Prague and the Luigi Einaudi Foundation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, the student who became a symbol of the population’s struggle for liberty after he set himself on fire on Prague’s Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969 to protest against the Soviet occupation of his Country. […]

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Diplomatic Network
17 January 2019
Tales through images by Paolo Longo on show in Lisbon

“Stories of persons, true life stories, and images of everyday life that could appear to be trivial and unoriginal but that conceal the politics, history, culture, emotions, wishes and secrets of a society,” said Paolo Longo, a journalist of the RAI public broadcaster and a foreign correspondent for 25 years, in describing the photographs he […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 January 2019
“A Focus on Italian Heritage” in Doha

The best of Italian classical architecture, painting and sculpture is reflected in the images of three great Italian photographers in the “A Focus on Italian Heritage” exhibition that opened in Doha today at the exhibition space of the Katara Cultural Village. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Qatar and curated by the Spazio Nuovo-Roma art […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 January 2019
The film on the life of Bud Spencer screened in Budapest

After having been dedicated a bronze statue in the heart of Budapest, a documentary now consolidates the special bond that exists between Bud Spencer, born Carlo Pedersoli, and Hungary. Tomorrow evening the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest will screen the world premiere of ‘Sulle tracce di Piedone”, the bio pic containing the interviews of 45 […]

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