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4 October 2016
Germany – “The Human Side” by Francesca Picchi explains the relationship between designer and industry

One of the keys of the success of Italy’s post-war design was having designed an industrial product like a cultural product. This humanistic approach was expressed through a dialectic relationship between the emerging Italian industry and the post-war generation of designers: a generation of intellectuals committed to changing the state of affairs. “The Human Side”, […]

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3 October 2016
Colombia – Architects and engineers on show in Ibaguè

 “Italian Architects and Engineers in Colombia” is the title of an exhibition sponsored by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Bogotá recently opened in Ibaguè. The exhibition will run until 23 October. The aim of the exhibition is to give an overview of the contributions of Italian architects and engineers: Battista […]

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3 October 2016
Bulgaria – The artistic history of Sofia told by Angela Occhipinti

The solo exhibition “Il mondo del mito e la spiritualità tra passato e presente” (“The World of Myth and Spirituality of the Past and Present”) by Italian artist Angela Occhipinti, an icon of Italy’s contemporary art scene, will run at Sofia’s National History Museum until 16 October. Organised by the city’s Italian Cultural Institute in […]

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30 September 2016
Czech Republic – Mario Ferrante on show in Prague

A solo exhibition by Mario Ferrante, “L’amore al tempo delle stelle cadenti,” will open in Prague at the Italian Cultural Institute on 6 October at 6:00 p.m. The catalogue of the exhibition, which will run until 30 October, features contributions by Aldo Amati (Ambassador of Italy to the Czech Republic), Giovanni Sciola (Director of the Italian […]

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30 September 2016
Italy takes centre stage at Washington Book Festival

Italy scored an extraordinary success at the 2016 National Book Festival, organised by the Library of Congress and held on September 24 at the Washington Convention Centre. Over 220,000 people visited the festival in one day. Two events put Italy under the spotlight this year. First, a special panel in the international section of the […]

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30 September 2016
The Netherlands – Amsterdam hosts a course on Italian design

The Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam organised a round of six panels on the “History of Italian Design from the Post-War Years to Today”. The initiative is part of the 16th Italian Language Week in the World, whose theme this year is fashion and design. Marco Nember, founder and director of Fondazione Blue439, conducted the […]

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29 September 2016
Slovakia – “Viva Italia!” ends with a concert

The exhibition, “Viva Italia! Italian Art of the 20th and 21st centuries,” sponsored by Slovak Minister of Culture, Marek Madaric, and  Mayor of Bratislava, Ivo Nesrovnal, is about to end after running for  three months in the prestigious Civic Gallery in  Bratislava.  A musical finissage by clarinetist Nicola Sulfonet, composer Davide Pitis, and performer Paolo Albani will take place […]

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29 September 2016
Russian Federation – Photo exhibition to celebrate Italian cinema

A photographic exhibition celebrating Italian cinema, “Viva l’Italia! Il cinema made in Italy visto dall’obiettivo di Angelo Frontoni” (Viva l’Italia! Italian cinema through the lens of Angelo Frontoni), is about to open in Moscow at the Manege, a historical palace across from the Kremlin. The exhibition, taking place from October 3 to October 8,  is […]

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29 September 2016
USA – A “Cover Revolution!” hits the publishing world

A revolution is underway across Italian bookshops: in recent years, a wind of change has swept across the shelves where historical fiction collections used to be displayed. Many publishing houses asked a group of world-renowned Italian illustrators with a very original style to reinvent book covers. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York organised the […]

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28 September 2016
Japan – Italy-Japan: “Fascination” of Italy” exhibition and conference in Kyoto

“The Fascination of Italy: Perceptions and Images of Contemporary Japan” is the title of the conference scheduled for 1 October in Kyoto to wind up this year’s numerous celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian-Japanese relations. The meeting – sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Japan and organised by the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, the […]

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28 September 2016
Denmark – Grazie Gloria 2 inaugurated in Copenhagen

The “Grazie Gloria” Italian Film Festival in Copenhagen opened its second edition on 20 September 2016. The festival opened with the screening of “Io che amo solo te”, a film directed by Marco Ponti and based on the novel by Luca Bianchini, which was all sold out. “Grazie Gloria” is an initiative co-sponsored by the […]

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