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<\/p>\nA new, creative, flexible way of communicating contemporary art to the wider public, with originality and beauty: that\u2019s\u00a0Italia Contemporanea<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>the new documentary series produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, that turns the spotlight on the greatness of our Country, in its most recent artistic production. This trip in four 20 minute episodes, each to be aired from Saturday 8 May at 20:45 on Sky Arte (also available on demand and via streaming on NOW), and on the Vimeo channel of the\u00a0italiana<\/i>\u00a0portal the day after being aired:\u00a0Sunday 9, 16, 23 and 30 May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Our guide beyond the red door that symbolises stepping into the contemporary dimension will be critic and journalist, Nicolas Ballario, who will take us from the studio to the places highlighted in each episode, to meet a host who will be waiting for him in each episode. This will bring about alternating voices, memories and experiences of four great exponents in the contemporary Italian arts scene: Artist\u00a0Marinella Senatore, in the first episode, exploring the museums in the biggest cities,\u00a0Metropoli,\u00a0<\/i>from Milan\u2019s Museo del Novecento to Rome\u2019s Maxxi \u2013 the national museum of 21st<\/sup> century art; from the Museo Madre in Naples to the MAMbo in Bologna (8 May);\u00a0<\/i>Piergiorgio Castellani, the artist along with Keith Haring behind the\u00a0Tuttomondo<\/i>\u00a0mural in Pisa, for the Open Air<\/i> episode. Here art is unfolded in piazzas, gardens, and parks, moving from the\u00a0Fontana Igloo<\/i>\u00a0of Mario Merz and the Merz Foundation in Turin, to\u00a0Ago, filo e nodo<\/i>\u00a0in Milan by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, on to Gibellina\u2019s Grande Cretto<\/i>\u00a0by Alberto Burri (15 May). Art historian, Angela Vettese, will host\u00a0Vecchio e Nuovo<\/i>, dedicated to old buildings, ex factories, and archaeological sites that house works of art, such as OGR, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan;\u00a0Cavallo di sabbia<\/i>\u00a0by Mimmo Paladino in Paestum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Fondazione Pinault, and Venice\u2019s La Biennale (22 May).\u00a0Cristiana Perrella, Director of Centro Pecci in Prato, will take the public on an\u00a0Off Road<\/i> adventure, exploring places off the beaten track, including\u00a0Calamita Cosmica <\/i>by Gino De Dominicis in the deconsecrated Church of the Santissima Trinit\u00e0 in Annunziata di Foligno, the Art Station in Ulassai and Niki de Saint Phalle\u2019s Tarot Garden in Pescia Fiorentina (29 May).<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This four-stage trip can also be followed, viewed again, and caught up on via\u00a0italiana\u00a0<\/i>(italiana.esteri.it<\/a>), the portal the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation inaugurated in March to promote Italian culture and creativity, as well as the Italian language. Launched with the goal of offering a new account of our Country abroad, and open to culture in its widest sense (music, literature, theatre, dance, cinema, visual and performing arts, comic strips, digital art, design, architecture, history, archaeology, food and wine, etc.), this website includes audio-video productions, in-depth materials, interviews, bands, opportunities and a lot more, with updates in the social media and a periodic newsletter to indicate all that is new.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Qui<\/a>\u00a0\u00e8 possibile iscriversi alla newsletter di\u00a0italiana<\/i><\/p>\n https:\/\/italiana.esteri.it\/italiana\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"italia](\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/mae\/resource\/img\/2021\/05\/italia_contemporanea_1.jpeg\")
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