Diplomazia Culturale

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15 February 2016

Cologne – Architecture and art, German students describe the “Piazzas of Palermo”

Students of the Architecture Department of the Cologne Polytechnic enrolled in the master’s course  entitled “Design and Construction Strategies” have analysed five ‘Piazzas’ in Palermo with the aim of understanding their functionality, social impact, potentials and problems. The results will be displayed in the exhibition entitled “The Piazzas of Palermo”, which will be open on […]

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15 February 2016

Mexico – Siena fresco exhibition to open in Mexico City

“‘Cor Magis’. The common good. Frescoes of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Oaxaca from Mar. 6 to June 3, 2016. The exhibition is dedicated to the frescoes of the ‘Sala dei Nove’ (Hall of the Nine), of the Palazzo Pubblico (city hall). The event is […]

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15 February 2016

Albania – Italy holds night-long photography workshop in Albania

The Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana will present the “All Night Long” photography and self-publishing workshop organised and hosted by Art House in Shkodër, north-west Albania. The night-long workshop will be conducted by Silvia Basso and Blerta Hocia in the night between Saturday Feb. 20 and Sunday, from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, and […]

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12 February 2016

Jakarta – Montanari in concert for an “Italian Cello Night”

Italian cellist Matteo Montanari has performed in  “An Italian Cello Night” concert at the Auditorium of the Italian Institute of Culture in Jakarta. The cellist played a programme dedicated to nine Italian composers, from Baroque to modern music. Jennifer Ongkowijoyo, a very young local talent,  accompanied him on the piano while eleven young Indonesian cellists […]

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11 February 2016

Mexico – New Italian honorary consul appointed in Playa del Carmen

Dr Italo Sampablo is Italy’s new honorary consul in the Mexican city of Playa del Carmen. The pulmonologist, who graduated from the University of Barcelona, is currently medical director at the Cancun Hospital, in Mexico. A days ago he was officially presented at a ceremony attended by the Italian ambassador to Mexico City, Alessandro Busacca, […]

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11 February 2016

Athens – “Memories in Black and White”, an exhibition of Franco Murer’s drawings

The stories narrated in the drawings of Franco Murer are not only of war and occupation but also of brotherhood and cooperation among the people who lived through it. “Memories in Black and White: real-life stories” (“Ricordi in bianco e nero: racconti vissuti”) is an itinerant exhibition on the stories of the Italian soldiers who […]

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11 February 2016

Russia – Italian competes in language Olympics

The auditorium of the Moscow State University of Linguistics (MGLU) hosted on Wednesday the regional round of the Olympics of three languages: Italian, Chinese and Spanish, idioms that are rarely dedicated a specific course in Russian middle and secondary schools. Thanks to this competition, the three foreign languages have officially acquired the same dignity as […]

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10 February 2016

Prague – An exhibition puts mosaic art at centre stage

Mosaic art will take centre stage in Prague in a cycle of events on Feb. 12 that will be hosted by Italian Institute of Culture (IIC). The event will open with the conference “MosaiCONtempo – from the mosaics of Ravenna to the present day”, focusing on the history and restoration of mosaics, which will be […]

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10 February 2016

Barcellona – On display Gabriele Sisti’s “Archivio quotidiano” photographic show

Imagination, creativity, the world of dreams, the subconscious: all this is inside Gabriele Sisti’s photography. “In this new one-man show, Gabriele Sisti decided to leave behind the world of traditional photography in order to explore new expressive possibilities through the juxtaposition technique, through which he combines two or more of his own images with those […]

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10 February 2016

Buenos Aires – Olivo Barbieri photo exhibition to open in Buenos Aires

“Olivo Barbieri: images 1978-2014” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Buenos Aires from Mar. 2 at the Recoleta Cultural Centre. The event has been organised by the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in the Argentine capital, by the hosting Centre and by the Maxxi Museum in Rome. The exhibition illustrates the […]

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10 February 2016

London-“Cinema Made in Italy” festival to begin in March

The “Cinema Made in Italy” festival will be held from March 10 to 14 at the Cine’ Lumiere in London’s South Kensington area. The festival has been organised by the Istituto Luce Cinecitta’ and the Italian Institute of Culture in London. Many of the movies in the festival’s programme will be screened for the first […]

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9 February 2016

Chile exhibition celebrates artists Ciccarelli and Mochi

“Arte italiano, una huella en Chile” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Santiago de Chile from Mar. 1 to 21. The show will celebrate artists Alessandro Ciccarelli and Giovanni Mochi who, in the mid-nineteenth century became respectively the first and third directors of the newly established Academy of Fine Arts in […]

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