{"id":60842,"date":"2018-04-19T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2018\/04\/la-scultura-all-amicizia-italo-thailandese-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-19T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:10:03","slug":"la-scultura-all-amicizia-italo-thailandese-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2018\/04\/la-scultura-all-amicizia-italo-thailandese-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cItalian-Thai Friendship Sculpture&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Embassy will donate a 3-metre-high contemporary sculpture in bronze to the city of Bangkok to celebrate the 150<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two Countries.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture, entitled \u201cItalian-Thai Friendship Sculpture\u201d, will be situated in Lumpini Park, the capital\u2019s largest park.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was designed by Komsan Phetsit, the winner of a competition specifically launched by the Embassy in conjunction with Silpakorn University, which was established by Italian-born sculptor Corrado Feroci\/Silpa Bhirasri, the founding father of Thai modern art<\/p>\n<p>It was cast in bronze by the Italian-Thai MonzArt Bronze Benny Line Foundry that was established more than 30 years ago by Armando Benato.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was sponsored through the generous contribution of the Central Group, which owns Italian department store La Rinascente.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration ceremony will be presided over by the Italian Ambassador,<\/p>\n<p>Francesco Saverio Nisio, and will be held at Lumpini Park at 5:30 p.m., on Saturday, 21 April, the date on which both Rome and Bangkok were founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Embassy will donate a 3-metre-high contemporary sculpture in bronze to the city of Bangkok to celebrate the 150th\u00a0Anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two Countries. The sculpture, entitled \u201cItalian-Thai Friendship Sculpture\u201d, will be situated in Lumpini Park, the capital\u2019s largest park. The sculpture was designed by Komsan Phetsit, the winner of a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[45,32],"class_list":["post-60842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60842","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=60842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}