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13 January 2017
Colombia – Author Iacopo Barison participates in the Hay Festival

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Bogotá announces that the twelfth Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias, taking place from 26 to 29 January, will also be attended by Italian author Iacopo Barison. Major literary figures including Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature 2010), Simon Sebag Montefiore, Andrea Wulf, Hisham Matar, Phil Manzanera, Carmen […]

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13 January 2017
Austria – From Visconti to Tornatore, Sicily in the movies

Many Italian films have Sicily as their common denominator, including The Earth Trembles by Luchino Visconti, Respiro by Emanuele Crialese, Forever Mery by Marco Risi and Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore. Sicily is an island of contradictions – a landing stage for thousands of migrants and a reflection of the poverty of southern Italy, but also a […]

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12 January 2017
France – “Paris 1900” exhibition by Alfredo Muller in Strasbourg

The Italian Cultural Institute  (IIIC) in Strasbourg is preparing to host the exhibition titled “Paris 1900. Sguardo sulla scena. Regard sur la scéne . Glance on Stage. Portraits of actresses by Alfredo Muller.” The event, opening next Thursday is the result of meticulous work carried out by the ‘Friends of Alfredo Muller’ association. It brings together a series […]

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12 January 2017
United States – Sardinian textiles on show at the Italian Cultural Institute

MURATS, the Sardinian regional museum of textile art, has provided a selection of exhibits for a show being held at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco from Thursday, 19 January to Friday, 24 February. “Sardinian textile production is fairly unknown outside the region and this show is intended to promote Sardinian craftwork and relaunch […]

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12 January 2017
The masterpieces of the Italian ‘Novecento’ on show in Tirana

The National Gallery of Art in Tirana will host a special event dedicated to Italian 20th century art. The exhibition, featuring over 100 masterpieces on loan from the Modern Art Gallery in Rome, will run from January 16 to April 2, 2017. Strongly promoted by Albania’s public institutions, the exhibition was made possible thanks to […]

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10 January 2017
Germany – Cologne to feature the “Vivere alla Ponti” exhibition

On Monday, the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne will open the exhibition “Vivere alla Ponti” (“Living Ponti’s Way: experiments of household living and architecture for homes and workplaces”). Molteni & C, one of the world’s most renowned interior design companies, together with the Ponti family, has decided to manufacture several projects of pieces furniture designed […]

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10 January 2017
Ireland – The Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin presents a translation of James Joyce

The Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin will present the third volume of the Italian translation of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ on Friday. A representative of Edizioni Mondadori will introduce the work, to be followed by a conversation in Italian on the theme of untranslatability. The event will be attended by Enrico Terrinoni and Fabio Pedone, the translators […]

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