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Arts: Malta for Italy. Arcidiacono paints for Amatrice
Watercolors and oils paintings for Amatrice. The artist Marco Arcidiacono reproduces the colors of the Mediterranean, the Mare Nostrum of barges and migrants, and dedicates an exhibition to the people of Amatrice affected by the earthquake. The initiative is run by Institute of Italian culture in Malta that organized this ‘solo exhibit’ at La Valletta. It will last until January 13th and part of the proceeds from the exposure will be donated to the aid of earthquake victims in central Italy. Arcidiacono studied at Birkfield School of Art, where he developed his talent thanks to the teachings of Gabriel Deschamps, who loved painting Mediterranean coasts. He participated in numerous collective shows in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, and Malta, and displayed his work in several solo shows. In almost 50 years of watercolour production, Arcidiacono reproduced sketches of Mediterranean just like his father, the famous Maltese watercolour painter Giuseppe Arcidiacono.
http://www.iicvalletta.esteri.it
Theater: in Tunis the show 'Harlequin’s hunger’
At the start, on January 3 in Tunis, the performing stage directed by Carmelo Rifici and Alessio Romano, from Piccolo Teatro di Milano Foundation- Teatro d'Europa. A theatre course for tunisian students of the Ecole de l'Acteur in the context of an artistic collaboration with the National Theatre Tunisien. The show ‘Harlequin’s hunger’, played by the company The Theatre Workshop, is part the International Theatre Festival for Children in Neapolis and is run by the Italian Institute of Culture in Tunis . It will be on stage from 8 to 10 January. The ‘piece’, written and directed by Giuseppe Cardascio and starring Salvatore and Joseph Varvaro Cardascio, deals in a fun way the characters of the great Italian tradition of Commedia dell'Arte; Harlequin, Pantalone, Pulcinella, Colombina, Brighella and Balanzone.
http://www.iictunisi.esteri.it/iic_tunisi/it/
Made in Italy: in Berlin Open Design Italy on show
Italian design on display in Berlin: young creatives who, more than others, demonstrate that Made in Italy starts precisely from its aesthetic form. The inauguration of the important exhibition ‘New Shapes of Made in Italy’ will be on January 9th in the German capital, where it will remain until February 3. The preciousness of forms and designs, the talent of searching new and original materials: this will be the challenge for the artists that will expose their new products. Amongst the projects selected those that represent the culture of Made in Italy. Arrived last autumn in Budapest, the exhibition, curated by Open Design Italy, is an international showcase for young creatives of Italy and an occasion to highlight that entrepreneurship starts from designers.
Culture: in Paris meeting with Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia, one of the protagonists of the Italian culture, will be the first of a series of appointments the Institute of Culture in Paris will dedicate to Italy in the year. On January the10th the Institute proposes on the screen the documentary "Leonardo Sciascia - a verité nee en Sicile" made in France in 1995 by Francoise Gallo, who will take part in the event, for the collection a century of writers. Novelist, short story writer, critic and polemicist, but also the author of theatrical pieces, Sciascia is well known and appreciated in France as one of the greatest cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century.
Arts: in Copenhagen "The graphics of the Made in Italy"
It will open on January 19th at the Italian Institute of Culture in Copenhagen, the exhibition entitled "The graphics of the Made in Italy". The exhibition covers three decades of art and visual communication design, from the Fifties to the early Eighties, through history the designers and the most cutting-edge companies. On show there will be unique images able to communicate ideas and new products. A great insight of Made in Italy which developed after World War II. A phenomenon which projected abroad the image of a country with a vitality and an out of ordinary entrepreneurial spirit.. The exhibition makes it clear that the role of design in Italy was essential to raise awareness of industrial products, make them desirable objects, through the construction of a shared symbolic imagery.
Arts: in Tirana the Italian Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century
More than one hundred works from the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome will be from January 16 to April 2 on display at the National Gallery of Art in Tirana in an exhibition organized by Arthemisia Group and sponsored by the the Government of Albania, the Embassy of Italy , the Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Tirana, the National Art Gallery in Tirana and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Roma Capitale and the Modern Art Gallery in Rome. The exhibition aims to present the artistic culture in Rome in the first half of the twentieth century, the artistic expressions that have followed, the artists and the different art movements, passing through Symbolism, Secession, Futurism, New Classicism, Roman School, Abstract. Among the exhibited artists, Afro, Balla, Bocchi, Camellotti, Capogrossi, Carena, Casorati, Conti, Crali, De Carolis, Depero, de Chirico, de Pisis, Discovolo, Donghi, Doctors, Fillia, Funi, Gentilini, Guttuso.
Books: in Tirana Terrusi with "BRENGA ime shqiptare"
The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana, in collaboration with the National Library of Albania, organizes the presentation of the book "BRENGA ime shqiptare" ( "My Albanian Sadness") by the writer Aldo Renato Terrusi. The event is scheduled for January 19 at the Albanian National Library. The book tells about a journey in search of origins and history: Main characters are Aldo and Uncle Giacomo's returning to Albania after forty-four years, in a nation that still bears the signs of a tearing dictatorship. Through family memories, testimonies, and photographs of the original documents of the trial suffered from his father in 1945, the author will retrace the dramatic events of the darkest page in the history of the country of the Eagles.
Arts: Titian and the Venetian Renaissance in Tokyo
From January 21st the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum will host the exhibition dedicated to Titian masterpieces from the greater Italian museums. An excursus on the Venetian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th century. But mostly the focus on a city made wealthy by its maritime trade to become at that age one of the largest malls in the world. Works from 1450 to 1630 that will illustrate the magnificence of the Venetian Renaissance in one of the countries, Japan, more devoted to Italian art. The exhibition follows one on the Venetian school to the National Art Center in Tokyo from July 13 to October 10 and another from October 22 to January 15 at the National Museum of Art in Osaka.
Made in Italy: Italian marbles at Bau in Monaco of Bavaria
From designers of construction company, to the workmen until the facility managers. The entire world of design and furnishing, at the national and international level and internationally, will ebe gathering from 16th to 21st of January at the Bau in Monaco of Bavaria. Italian Trade Agency will host 13 companies representing Italian excellence of made in Italy in marble and natural stones. At the fair there will be an ITA meeting point for direct assistance at the fair to the Italian companies and to foreign visitors.
BAU is the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems in the construction industry. Here forward-thinking manufacturers meet with the interested public and at the center of interest are new techniques, new materials and new applications.
Fashion: Italian style to Mrket Trade Show in New York
Italian men's fashion will show in New York from January 23 to 25 at the Jacob Javits Center. The occasion is the Mrket Trade Show that in the ‘Big Apple’ will present, as every year, the 2017-2018 autumn winter collection. The appointment for Italian fashion companies is organized by ICE and will include sections devoted to Italian and British fashion. The focus is on small and medium-sized enterprises that find it harder to enter in the US market and need support and promotional tools to be known across the Ocean.
Arts: Photomed back in Beirut and Italy will be there
The photo exhibition Photomed is back to Beirut and the Italian Cultural Institute participates. At this fourth edition of the famous event, born in Sanary-sur-Mer, the works of two Italian photographers, Sergio Strizzi and Paolo Ventura, together with a French photographer Alain Fleischer, will be exposed. The exposure will open on January 18 at Byblos Bank Head Office and will remain open to the public until the 8th of February.
http://www.iicbeirut.esteri.it/iic_beirut/en/
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Design: Lisbon ongoing with the Italian creative
The design speaks Italian in Lisbon. With the initiative "The Italian and creativity : design and its protagonists”, the Institute of Italian culture in the Portuguese capital, will go forward with the special course until 13 February. During the ten lessons, through documentaries, interviews, readings and comments, the history of some of the protagonists - architects, engineers, designers – will come to the light. Goal of the curse also to analyze the objects that brought Italy and its industry to the most highest international levels .
http://www.iiclisbona.esteri.it/iic_lisbona/it/