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4 January 2016
Athens – Exhibitions, “Tracce e recessioni” colour the Italian Cultural Institute

Originality and coherence, cohesion and continuous experimenting with means and methods. In the exhibition entitled “Tracce e recessioni” (“Traces and Relinquishments”), which the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens will keep open to visitors till January 20, Maria Kompatsiari presents old and new collections of her works. Taking representation as her point of departure, the artist […]

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31 December 2015
Santiago del Chile-Director Romeo Castellucci at the STGOaMIL Festival

Santiago del Chile once again hosts the renowned STGOaMIL theatre festival with performances by some of the most important companies in the world. The Italian Cultural Institute and Embassy of Italy in Chile will offer famous actor and director Romeo Castellucci (Societa Raffaello Sanzio) as Italy’s illustrious representative at the festival, who will be performing […]

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31 December 2015
La Valletta – Art, treasures of the Convent of San Marco enchant Malta

On Thursday 14 January, in the context of a cycle of conferences on Italian art organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of La Valletta, art historian and founder/director of the Fine Arts Museum of Malta Fr. Marius Zerafa will reveal the “Treasures of the Convent of San Marco in Florence” to the Maltese public. The […]

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31 December 2015
Beijing – Design and Architecture: the Triennale di Milano presented in China

Design, art, architecture, cinema, communication and society: the 21st Triennale di Milano prepares for its official presentation to the Chinese public at 15:00 hours on Monday 4 January at the theatre of the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing. The event has been organised by the Institute and the Embassy of Italy in Beijing in collaboration […]

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30 December 2015
San Francisco – In search of “492 Great Things about Being Italian”

San Francisco’s Italian Cultural Institute will host a special event on Wednesday 20 January dedicated to Made in Italy and Italian creativity, culture and genius. The event is to be hosted by Boze Hadleigh, author of more than 15 books – among them“Celebrity Feuds!” and “Hollywood and Whine” – and hundreds of magazine and newspaper […]

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30 December 2015
Hamburg – Alessandra Ferri pays homage to Eleonora Duse

Hamburg pays homage to Italian acting great Eleonora Duse on Wednesday 13 January at the Italian Cultural Institute, where ballerina Alessandra Ferri will offer her personal vision of John Neumeier’s  “Duse”, the composer’s role in the work and the various phases of her career. The work was recently performed at the Staatsoper in Hamburg. Read more, […]

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30 December 2015
Krakow – Italian Cultural Institute explores 19th and 20th century Italy

The Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow has been under the direction of 58-year-old Ugo Rufino for a year and a half now, and it will be the director himself to hold a seminar at the University of Krakow on 20 January entitled “History of 19th and 20th Century Italy”, during a conference on Italy’s contemporary […]

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29 December 2015
Oslo – Film and literature with Moravia’s “Il conformista”

An evening of literature and film at the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo on Thursday 14 January, with a presentation of Alberto Moravia’s novel “Il conformista” and the film of the same name directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Translator Tommy Watz, who has produced the first translation of Moravia’s novel into Norwegian, will present both the […]

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29 December 2015
Tokyo – “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition, with a symposium at the Italian Cultural Institute

To coincide with the “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Art Museum, which runs from 16 January to 3 April 2016, the Italian Cultural Institute in the Japanese capital is organising a symposium on the artist. Speakers will include art historians and academics Osano Shigetoshi, Alessandro Cecchi, Cristina Acidini and Jonathan Nelson. Read […]

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28 December 2015
New York – Silent movies: Dante’s “Inferno” in the Big Apple

“L’inferno”, a silent film from the early 20th century by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, produced by Milano Films, is the first full-length film in the history of Italian cinema. It was restored in 2011. The film will be shown, with a new musical score performed live by saxophonist and composer Marco […]

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