{"id":60463,"date":"2019-01-15T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/01\/a-focus-on-italian-heritage-a-doha-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:23:56","slug":"a-focus-on-italian-heritage-a-doha-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/01\/a-focus-on-italian-heritage-a-doha-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Focus on Italian Heritage\u201d in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best of Italian classical architecture, painting and sculpture is reflected in the images of three great Italian photographers in the \u201cA Focus on Italian Heritage\u201d exhibition that opened in Doha today at the exhibition space of the Katara Cultural Village. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Qatar and curated by the Spazio Nuovo-Roma art gallery, the exhibition kicks off the Embassy\u2019s cultural programme for 2019 and will run until 30 January. The 16 photographs displayed were taken by Riccardo Ajossa, Camilla Borghese and Olivier Roller, three artists who use a camera to reinterpret Italy\u2019s immense artistic heritage, especially that of Graeco-Roman origin. In particular, Olivier Roller dwells on the details of the classical statues of the Roman civilization to explore the human trait of power while Camilla Borghese focuses on the perspective effects created by the monumental buildings of antiquity, and Riccardo Ajossa re-examines fragments of Italian Renaissance painting, enhancing and highlighting the range of shades of colour. When opening the exhibition, the Italian Ambassador to Qatar, Pasquale Salzano, said: \u201cThe artists\u2019 approach reflects the great contribution that photography can make to \u2018cultural diplomacy\u2019 by capturing instants and catching moments. This form of artistic expression simultaneously helps to define the past, build the present and influence the vision of the future. Photography thus constitutes a powerful instrument to stimulate emotions and engender new ideas.\u201d Ambassador Salzano added: \u201cItaly and Qatar share the same vision of culture: both Countries have committed to preserve and promote their artistic heritage and make it legally accessible so as to foster social development and intergenerational dialogue.\u201d The Ambassador said that the exhibition is part of the fruitful cooperation and dialogue established between Italy and Qatar. Ambassador Salzano closed his speech with a wish: \u201cI wish to all the exhibition visitors to have an exciting voyage across Italy\u2019s extraordinary artistic heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best of Italian classical architecture, painting and sculpture is reflected in the images of three great Italian photographers in the \u201cA Focus on Italian Heritage\u201d exhibition that opened in Doha today at the exhibition space of the Katara Cultural Village. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Qatar and curated by the Spazio Nuovo-Roma art [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-60463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60463","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}