{"id":101990,"date":"2023-06-12T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2023\/06\/lambasciata-a-teheran-apre-le-porte-allarte-contemporanea\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:35:09","slug":"lambasciata-a-teheran-apre-le-porte-allarte-contemporanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2023\/06\/lambasciata-a-teheran-apre-le-porte-allarte-contemporanea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Embassy in Tehran opens its doors to contemporary art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the historic Persian garden of the Italian residence in Tehran, the Ambassador to Iran, <strong>Giuseppe Perrone<\/strong>, hosted a three-day event entitled &#8220;<strong>An Artistic Itinerary in the Garden of the Italian Residence<\/strong>&#8220;, offering around 600 guests the opportunity to visit the park where a selection of masterpieces of modern Italian and Iranian art was set up for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The series of events followed the cancellation &#8211; upon the official instructions of the Islamic Republic\u2019s authorities on the eve of the event &#8211; of the public opening of the Italian Residence garden on the occasion of Republic Day on 2 June. The public opening had been scheduled through a reservation system that had sold out in less than 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were very sorry not to be able to offer the public the chance to admire the rich artistic and monumental heritage of the Italian Residence in Tehran on 2 June,&#8221; Ambassador Perrone said in his opening speech. &#8220;But we are happy today to be able to reciprocate the Iranians\u2019 generosity by sharing a site of great historical and cultural importance such as our Persian garden, registered in the list of Iran&#8217;s national monumental heritage,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The 600 guests could admire <strong>Mohsen Vaziri Moqaddam<\/strong>&#8216;s mobile sculptures; <strong>Khosrow Khorshidi<\/strong>&#8216;s drawings of 1940s Tehran; <strong>Bizhan Bassiri&#8217;<\/strong>s \u201cmagmatic sculptures\u201d, <strong>Khosrow Hassanzadeh<\/strong>&#8216;s pop art portraits; <strong>Gaetano Pesce<\/strong>&#8216;s visionary drawings for the Tehran National Library in 1977, and the collection of murals created by Italian and Iranian artists for the \u201c<strong>Urban Art Unites<\/strong>\u201d initiative promoted by the Italian Embassy in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the historic Persian garden of the Italian residence in Tehran, the Ambassador to Iran, Giuseppe Perrone, hosted a three-day event entitled &#8220;An Artistic Itinerary in the Garden of the Italian Residence&#8220;, offering around 600 guests the opportunity to visit the park where a selection of masterpieces of modern Italian and Iranian art was set [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":101955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-101990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101991,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101990\/revisions\/101991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}