Photograph - International Festival of Rome

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by oriana.
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Fotografia-Festival Internazionale di Roma” comes back with its 7th edition. The event is dedicated to the exposition of the most original and brilliant photos of contemporaneous affirmed and emerging photographers, who every year get inspiration from a particular topic.

This year, as the artistic director Marco Delogu decided, the king of the castle will be Normality. Clicks of lived life, stolen to the everyday life, moments, split seconds of a day trapped into a click. Nort even an extravagance or peculiarity, normality only, this is the mentality of the new edition of the International Festival of Rome which every year awards the best talents of photography.

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Supported by the town council of Rome with the production of Zoneattive, this year the Festival will be divided into three different exhibition’s itineraries according to the category, therefore it will be housed in three different seats: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, an area on the west bank of the river Tevere, and the National Gallery of Modern Art.

At Palazzo delle Esposizioni, in a manner of speaking the centre of the manifestation, the photos of three young photographers will be exhibited; they are Paolo Woods, Leonie Purchas e Lucia Nimcowa, whose creations contribute to enrich tinternational artistic background of photography.

The Museum of Rome in Trastevere instead will house more accurate and laborious clicks of photographers who are already affirmed and who directed their attention to war, joy and pains of our society. (more…)



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Siena Masters from Lindenau Museum of Altenburg

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by oriana.
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From 15th March a nex picture exhibition will arrive in Siena, and its name is ” Maestri senesi dal Lindenau Museum di Altenburg” (”Siena Masters from Lindenau Museum of Altenburg”) dedicated to the artworks of Tuscan and Siena masters which belong to the Renaissance and to the Gothic period.

This exhibition, which could seem to be one of many, is indeed really particular because these pictures come from Germany and precisely from the personal collection of the baron Bernhard August von Lindenau, until now kept intact at Lindenau Museum of Altenburg.

Exhibition in Siena

The exhibition is housed by the Museum of Santa Maria of Scala and it’s a good occasion to admire these amazing pictures which are not many, but which are rich of history, tradition and contents.

Through these artworks it is possible to create again the artistic itinerary which the Siena masters went through throughout their career and they are useful to rebuild the peculiar characteristics of the pictorial production in Tuscany between 13th and 16th century. (more…)



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Sebastiano del Piombo on Exhibition in Rome

The city of Rome is proud to host in the wonderful halls of Palazzo Venezia until 18th May , the artworks which belong to one of the 16th century greatest Italian artists, Sebastiano del Piombo.

The exhibition, the first monosgraph dedicated do the painter, goes over about 80 artworks, from the artist’ paintings (paintings on board, small paintings on slate, life size portraits) to other artworks by comparison, useful to understand and to underline the artistic genius Del Piombo.

Exhibition in ROme: Sebastiano del Piombo

Moreover, in order to allow the spectator to retrace the artistic itinerary of the painter, the exposure is branched, with a path which goes from the first lightful, great and coloured artworks, to the last productions, abstract geometrical shapes dipped with dull shades.

Sebastiano Luciani (this is the real name of the artist), was born in Venice in 1484, and spent most of his artistic life in Rome, where in 1531 it was given to him the qualification of ‘papal piombatore’ (minister of justice who took care of papal bulls and apostolic letters), from which the nickname “del Piombo” results, by which he’s known all over the world. (more…)



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Tiziano’s mature sensitiveness in an exhibition in Venice

Posted on April 11th, 2008 by oriana.
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The city of Venice dedicates an exhibition to one of the artists that mostly made Venice one of the world art capital, Tiziano.

The exhibition’s name is The last Tiziano and the sensuality of his painting and it will be housed in the Venice Accademy Galleries until next 20th April.

The title symbolizes the exhibition itself, because it is dedicated to Tiziano’s last artworks, about 28 masterpieces painted between 1550 and 1576, year of his death, which come from the greatest museums in Europe.See the official site of the Exhibition

See the official site of the Exhibition

Tiziano’s last artworks are characterized by the creation and development of a curious tecnique called “pittura a macchia” (spotted painting), which has always been the object of international study and research. Tiziano has a his own style, easily recognizable, characterized by quick and sometimes inaccurate marks, with no drafts, which makes figures real and alive, and together with subjects sensuality makes unique these artworks. (more…)



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Prato dedicates an exhibition to the origins of the “Made in Italy products”

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by oriana.
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Until 14th April the “Museo del tessuto” (”Textile Museum”) in Prato will house an exhibition whose aim is to honor the father of the “Made in Italy” Ernesto Michaelles, world-notorious with the name of THAYAHT.

Thayaht

The exhibition is made up of materials and photos of the artist and his creations which bring the spectators through the history of this personage, underlining his main turning points in his relationship as disigner with fashion and textile.

In the exhibition there are about 300 exhibited objects, but his most famous creation occupies the first palce: La Tuta, the piece of clothing which made him famous throughout the world.

Infact, you need to know that the tuta, that is to say the T-shaped tracksuit, one of the most innovative and futuristic apparel item in history, was projected by Thayaht in 1929, and it was flattered for its cheapness and handiness.

There are several versions of tuta, for example the one called “Angeli del fango” (”Mud Angels”) which was used during Florence flood in 1966. (more…)



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An Exhibition for Women’s Art

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by katia.
Categories: About Italy, Milan, To see, Exhibitions, Art.
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Until 6th April in “Palazzo Reale” of Milan an original exhibition will take place, and it’s entirely dedicated to the pictorial production of women, “L’Arte delle Donne dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo” (”Women’s Art from Renaissance to Surrealism”).

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Infact this time tourists will not see artworks whose subjects are women, or rather not only…. because all exhibited pictures are painted by female painters, artists who deeply etched on Art History from Renaissance to Surrealism.

The exhibition’s aim is to highlight and to give the woman role a new value in the field of art, by proposing a scenery of the most important feminine artworks which belong to the last five centuries. (more…)



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Art in U.S.A…. but Made in Italy!

Posted on February 26th, 2008 by oriana.
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After a sort of cultural closing in the relationship between Italy and United States of America, we can look at a new collaboration and cultural comparison between these two countries, now.

vaso-eufronio.jpgThis new chapter of the current cultural History started with the return in Italy of one of the most important Italian artistic production’s masterpieces: the Vase of Eufronio, an artwork (dating back to the 5th century a.C.) found in 1973 in an ancient tomb in Certeveri. The Vase, which finally comes back home, is currently exposed at the Quirinale, and is only the first of 40 masterpieces, stealed from Italy in the previous years by the several clandestine commercial transactions.These works were exposed since a long time to the Getty Museum.

But this episode represents only the beginning of a new relationship between Italy and USA. Infact, very soon, some prestigious masterpieces by Gian Lorenzo Bernini - one of the most important Italian artists in ‘600 - will travel across the Ocean to be exposed for the first time in United States.

By the deal between the Italian cultural Minister and the Getty Museum of Los Angeles, a unique expo will start, dedicated to the italian painter and entitled “Bernini and the born of the Baroque painting portraiture”. (more…)



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Canova and La Venere Vincitrice in Rome

Posted on December 19th, 2007 by oriana.
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The Galleria Borghese in Rome will house until the 3rd of February an exhibition completely dedicated to Antonio Canova and his masterpiece, the “Venere Vincitrice“.

The exhibition is included in the series of “10 Great Exhibitions” started in May 2006 with an exposition dedicated to Raphael.

Canova in Rome: Galleria Borghese

The one dedicated to Canova is the second of the

and it has been instituted to celebrate his great art in occasion of the 250° anniversary of his birth and the 200 years of Canova’s masterpiece, the absolute star of the exhibition: Paolina Bonaparte as Venere Vincitrice.

La Venere Vincitrice, work of whom the Galleria Borghese is most proud, is a marble sculpture commissioned to Canova by the Borghese family, with whom the artist had a long relationship, and it’s not a simple sculptured portrait but it’s a fine, elegant, careful celebration of the beautiful and the victory, it’s a Paolina Bonaparte represented as a goddess. (more…)



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“Carving the work” 2007

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by diletta.
Categories: About Italy, To see, Events, Exhibitions, Culture, Art, Music, Pisa.
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Until the 28th of March 2008 the airport Galileo Galilei of Pisa will house a new ediction of “Carving the work”.

festival-puccini.gif“Carving the work” it’s an event of great importance both artistic and cultural. Born in 2001 from the collaboration with the Festival Pucciniano of Torre del Lago, the purpose of this manifestation is to spread the international contemporary art through Giacomo Puccini’s music.

Every year, in fact, in the huge space of the airport, beautiful sceneries are made up inspired by Puccini’s compositions which serve as background to his music.

These sceneries are realized by great artists of the international scene (more…)



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In Venice the 52nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art

Posted on November 14th, 2007 by oriana.
Categories: About Italy, To see, Curiosity, Events, Exhibitions, Culture, Venice.
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Is taking place until the 21st of November the 52nd International Biennale od Contemporary Art of Venice.

The Venice Biennale of Art770791.gif is an exposition dedicated to showing works of contemporary art, both Italian and international, some of which created by the artists exclusively for their participation to the event.

This year the exposition is entitled “Pensa con i sensi, Senti con la mente” and it will have many locations distributed among the Corderie, Artiglierie dell’Arsenale and the Padiglione Italia on Giardini.

The artistic director of this 52nd edition of the exibition wants to reproduce the traditional formula on which the event is based: internationality.
In fact, the foreign countries that participate to the Biannual every year are numerous (about 76), providing visitors the possibility of seeing the best creations of the worldly artistic scenary.

Besides the exibition, 34 collateral events such as conventions, meetings, laboratories and artistical projects have been instituted, and they will take place in the historical centre of the city, giving the possibility to all the visitors, expert ones or simply curious ones, of coming into contact with realities and creations from every side of the world.More… (more…)



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