Diplomazia Culturale

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3 March 2015

Beijing – Friuli Venezia Giulia collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institute

The President of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Debora Serracchiani, and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, Stefania Stafutti, have organised an event to explore collaboration between the region and China. The focus is on the cultural and economic spheres, and on opportunities for Spilimbergo’s renowned school for mosaic artists. Read more, in […]

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3 March 2015

Argentina – “Introvisione” exhibition opens

The “Introvisione” art movement has arrived in Argentina. For a month, starting on 5 March 2015, the Borjes cultural centre will host an exhibition featuring 3 Italian artists: Giovanni Schiaroli and Roberto Giovannetti (painters) and Monica Rafaeli (sculptor). The artists have also invited the Argentinian photographer Daniel Goldberg to exhibit with them. The exhibition was […]

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2 March 2015

Montreal – Italian video-art seeks to win over Canada

An Italian video-art review will be held at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal on Wednesdays 4 and 11 March (19:00), where the Italian Cultural Institute of that city will present “Archetypes of Contemporary Italian Video-Art”. The project is part of the broader “Création Vidéo: Trois temps, trois lieu”, and grew out of a desire to […]

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27 February 2015

Argentina – Italy showcased at Pantalla Pinamar

The 11th edition of the Argentine-European film festival Pantalla Pinamar, named for the same Argentine town located in the province of Buenos Aires, will take place from 7 to 14 March. Italy will enjoy a special showcase for its latest productions in the section “Selected films from the Taormina Festival”. There will be a press […]

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26 February 2015

Tokyo – Leonardo lives in “An impossible interview”

The theatrical event “Being Leonardo Da Vinci. An impossible Interview”, written, directed and acted by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, is currently touring Japan. After its premier in Tokyo, it will go on to tour Fukuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. Italian ambassador to Tokyo Domenico Giorgi attended the opening, which was organised and hosted by the Italian […]

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26 February 2015

Algiers – Christian Leotta brings Beethoven’s sonatas

Pianist Christian Leotta brought the first 8 of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s piano sonatas to Algiers in a recital at the Auditorium of the Radio. The event was a premier for Africa, and the first phase in a project created by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the ‘Aissa Messaoudi’ Cultural Centre for the execution […]

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26 February 2015

UK – Science and Uni cooperation grows

Italian ambassador to the London Pasquale Terracciano was at the University of Cambridge for a series of meetings focused on boosting Italian studies at that British university complex, later visiting the Fitzwilliam Museum, where two bronze statues on loan to the museum were recently attributed to Michelangelo. The ambassador then went on to the Language Department, […]

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25 February 2015

Argentina – Growth in Medical Cooperation

Italy and Argentina are contributing to the further development of collaboration in the field of medicine. A fourth cooperation framework agreement between the Italian Gastroenterologists Association and its Argentine counterpart, signed in the presence of the Italian ambassador to Buenos Aires Teresa Cataldo, is intended to promote youth training exchanges, joint clinical trials and joint […]

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25 February 2015

Riga – Italian portraits from the Bologna Museum

An exhibition opened in Riga entitled “Two centuries of Italian portraits, 1580-1780”; a display of 40 late-Mannerist and Baroque works by a variety of Italian masters, including Guido Reni, Guercino, the Carracci brothers and Lavina Fontana, from the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna. The exhibition, hosted by the city’s Museum of the Bourse, will run through […]

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24 February 2015

Sydney -“Out of the Box”, l’arte di Silvia Tuccimei in mostra in Australia

“Out of the Box” è il titolo della mostra che la scultrice e pittrice Silvia Tuccimei presenterà presso l’Istituto italiano di cultura di Sydney dal 5 marzo al 10 aprile. L’artista ha anche partecipato con una delle sue opere all’edizione 2013 di “Sculpture by the Sea”, la mostra che viene allestita ogni anno lungo la […]

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24 February 2015

Ecuador – Italian kinetic art

A selection of the works ofthe most prominent of the legendary optical and kinetic art movement betweenthe 1950s and 70s, from Bruno Munari to artists still active such as GetulioAlviani will be on display from 28 February through 19 April at the Centro deArte Contemporaneo of Quito. The exhibition of 50 collages, videos, sculpturesand other […]

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24 February 2015

Cianfarani – Major Italy-Pakistan trade potential

Trade relations between Italy and Pakistan have great potential for development in various sectors ofmutual interest, according to Italian ambassador to Pakistan Adriano Chiodi Cianfarani, who recently visited the eastern city of Lahore. His agenda included a meeting with the Italian Development Committee, which promotes andstrengthens the age-old trade relations between the two nations. The […]

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