01 NOTHING BUT SCULPTURE
– 13TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL
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Carrara
– until September 28th 2008
www.labiennaledicarrara.it
The
13th Carrara International Sculpture Biennial Nient’altro che scultura.
Nothing but sculpture, is divided into several sections: Homages, The
Topicality of Marble, New Statues, Sculpture as a Living Body, In Town,
Sculpting Time, and The Marble Workshops. The choice of the title
underlines the specific character of this event, created in 1957, and it
reasserts the tight link between the town and the production of
sculptures.
The exhibition focuses on the most significant and
innovative aspects of sculpture, giving rise to an in-depth reflection
and to a more precise vision of the present situation in this creative
sector, by comparing young emerging artists with artists of great
renown.
02 EASTWEST – INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS OF ROVERETO
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Rovereto-Trento-Valle di Sella –
September 4th-14th
www.orienteoccidente.it
This year the center of attention
will be placed of the cultures of China
and India
at the lights of EastWest, one of the most important European Dance Festival.
With their revolutionary forces bursting onto the world scene in
the fields of economics, politics and culture, these dynamic countries
represent a source of innovation and inspiration also for the western
world and the Festival
itself. As always in the forefront in its search for multiculturalism,
the expression of the body and the contemporary, EastWest is proud to
present some of the most interesting dance performances on the
international scene and the special projects immersed in the splendid
natural setting of Arte
Sella.
03 27th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON ART
AND THE ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
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Asolo – August 29th –
September 7th 2008
www.asolofilmfestival.it
The festival in Asolo, is dedicated to the
production of films on art and their intense multiplicity of their
expressions. The festival is articulated in six different sections from
visiual arts to music, to the historical intense activities of
reconstruction and of interpretation of the work of the famous life of
characters in the artistic world, to its motions and works, project and
city planning, but also sections dedicated to the evolution of design,
to video art and to computer art.
04 CIRCUITO OFF
VENICE
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
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San Servolo - Venice – August 30th/ September 5th
2008
www.circuitooff.com
During
the Film Festival in Venice Lido, it finds space to celebrate the
Circuito Off one of the most important European events presenting short
films, a window for the new young directors and independent producers.
Divided in four sections to give a chance to all participants,
International and Italian, the Festivals offers the new young directors
a possibility to enter in the world of the
Venice International Short Film Market, the only International
market in
Italy
dedicated to short film. This year’s program gives a chance to follow
the screening directly from the boat, the so called “screening boat”
thanks to the on board equipment of a screen on the barge.
05 WINE FILM 2008
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Forlė-Cesena -
Until
September 5th 2008
www.adriacoast.com
Wine
Film is an appealing summer event that unites the passion for film and
the pleasure of enjoying good wine.
A "wine and food route" along the cellars of
Romagna will fill the summer evening in different towns,
where in the appropriate spaces of “food and wine refreshments” once can
also sample other different products of the region.
06 SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Tricase (Lecce) – September 5th/14th
2008
www.salentofilmfestival.com
The
Tricase Film Festival is not just about cinema, it opens up to encompass
current topics such as peace and the importance of intercultural meeting
and conversation amongst the people. The event is composed of many
sections united with the same objective to create an event to compare
the different film productions. The project “Araibic Nights” composed of
cinema and music is introduced in this context for a greater
understanding of a world so close but often unknown.
07 SAGRA MUSICALE UMBRA
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Perugia,
from September 12th to 26th
www.italiafestival.it
Sagra
Musicale Umbra is a long-standing festival of music which also this year
is rich in important events of international interest. Entitled "Fratello
Suono" ("Brother Sound"), the intention of the festival - according to
its Artistic Director Aldo Bennici - is to bring people of diverse
religious sentiments closer to one another through sound.
This year,
Sagra Musicale Umbra will open with a concert by the St Petersburg
Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the celebrated conductor Jurij
Temirkanov, followed by a varied programme of sacred music, interspersed
with folk and World Music.
Concerts will
be given in Perugia, the principal venue of the festival, at the
Benedictine Basilica di San Pietro, in the suggestive old Chiesa di San
Bevignate, (founded by the order of the Templars) and in the historic
Teatro Morlacchi, as well as in some of the most evocative localities of
Umbria, rich in art, history and spirituality
Villa Torlonia – Rome
Until September 13th
www.technotown.it
A space didicated tot he new technologies in the
inside of the Villino Medievale in the park of Villa Torlonia. A binomial nature and
innovation dedicated to the young but destined to a public of all ages.
Seven halls in sequnce where visitors will be invited to measure
themselves with more sophisticated technologies across games of high
educational level, but also outside installations to experiment and play
either on their own or with a team.
09 REGGIO FILM FESTIVAL
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Reggio Emilia – September 17th-20th
2008
www.reggiofilmfestival.it
Reggio Emilia for its seventh consecutive year will host a
huge event on short films. Authors coming from all over the world,
encounters with director and authors, cultural deepening on the world of
the cinematography are the ingredients of what composes the Reggio
Festival Film. The event is characterized across the theme choices in
the different languages, outside of the film are involved the world of
art, culture, music and many others.
10 PARMA
HAM FESTIVAL
Municipalities in the Province of Parma – August 30th to
September 21st 2008
www.festivaldelprosciuttodiparma.com
The
upcoming Parma Ham Festival is getting ready for visitors. The tenth
edition shall take place every weekend in September in twelve different
municipalities belonging to the Parma Ham production area. As usual, the
main event in the Festival will be "Finestre Aperte", taking place
throughout the production area. The participating Parma Ham producers
will open their plants to visitors: guided tours and free tasting
sessions will be held in these "Parma Ham Cathedrals" in order to show
the different production phases and reveal the secrets which make a pork
leg become a Parma Ham, from a special climate to passion and tradition.
It will also be possible to visit Museo del Prosciutto in Langhirano's "Foro
Boario" (the former Cattle Market). The Museum helps retrace the ancient
history of this tradition passed down so many generations.
11 WOMEN’S FICTION FESTIVAL
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Matera
– September 25th-28th 2008
www.womensfictionfestival.com
The Fifth edition of the Women’s Fiction Festival is
expanding its horizons to include authors from all over the world, new
genres, new readers, new themes. This year’s Festival will offer a
unique and exciting perspective on the multicultural world of books
across all genres – fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, romance,
mysteries and thrillers, young adult, fantasy, urban fiction. The world
of books and the imagination of writers are bubbling with new ideas, new
scenarios, cross-genres, books that appeal to all ages and all
nationalities.
12 SONDRIO FESTIVAL 2008
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Sondrio – October 6th –11th 2008
www.sondriofestival.it
Sondrio
Festival is an international festival unique in its kind, focusing on
nature films of very high scientific and cinematographic quality, shot
in nature parks and protected areas throughout the world. Established in
1987, it takes places every year in the Alpine town of Sondrio, in Lombardy, Northern Italy,
for a week in October. The film competition is open to makers of
documentary films on the theme of National Parks, Reserves and Protected
Areas, featuring naturalistic, ethnographic, historical and management
aspects. The Festival presents films selected among the best productions
from all over the world. The Festival aims at making natural parks and
the culture involved in them better known, as well as highlighting the
importance of naturalistic and ethnographic documentaries as a means for
promoting, studying and researching our natural, artistic and cultural
heritage, in relationship to similar international experiences.
13 11th ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Turin
– October 16th/21st
www.cinemambiente.it
The
Environmental Film Festival was founded in Turin in 1998 with the
idea to promote a heightened awareness of crucial environmental issues
through cinematic works. Another important component of the Festival is
the opportunity to see the past year’s best films that explore
environmental situations from diverse points of view and enrich the
experience by engaging audience discussion on the film’s topics during
the Festival or when on tour to communities and schools.
To our mind, the environmental film genre comprises a broad
spectrum from television documentaries to animated cartoons on
pollution, enquiry films into deforestation and illegal eco-business,
from war documentaries to the poetic works.
14 MAV – CAPWARE
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Ercolano
www.capware.it
The
new Virtual Archeological Museum of Ercolano is born just a few steps
away form the actual archiological site. It was developed in three
levels of 1500 m2 each. It is made of innovative technology, laser,
virtual reality, scanner, holograms, three-dimensional screens. Visitors
will be able to relive real situations from the ancient Rome, rebuild mosaics, and move the water of
the baths of the rich aristocratic villas. Urban environments have been
rebuilt dating back to the destruction of
Herculaneum.
Sounds and voices will guide each and every spectator who will
have the possibility to experiment the different temperatures of the
places as well as the smell.
A complex with special effects to gain the influence of this
great leap from the past.
15 ACTIONS. ART, CULTURE, GENERATION
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Pergine-Villazzano-Trento
Until September 21st 2008
www.culturaliart.com
Different
settings and localities make up the Action, a togetherness of artistic
discipline from paintings to sculptures, from photography to videos
achieved by 10 International female artists. A together of intense
activities for a generational comparison that it is questioned on the
meaning of the places of boundary and of transit. The event is for the
public, transforming itself as a closer route thanks to the Train of
Valsugana, full of graffiti by one of the main artists especially for
this occasion.
16 THE BIG BANG
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Carlo Bilotti Museum – Rome
Until October 19th
www.museocarlobilotti.it
The exhibition route takes us past the works of four American artists
showing in Rome for the first time ever- as well as those by Italians
Alberto di Fabio, Domenico Bianchi and Mario Dellavedova and Shazia
Sikander from Pakistan, all portraying in their very personal styles,
their symbolic, conceptual or sensory relationship with the cosmos and
the uncertainty it represents.
The cosmos -and the human soul - as an expression of the infinite and
the indefinite is the most complex abstraction to analyze.
17 MENS SEA – PHOTOGRAPHS BY FOLCO QUILICI
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MNAF – Alinari National
Museum of Photography – Florence
Until September 7th 2008
www.alinari.com
The MNAF- Alinari National
Museum of Photography presents the exhibition I Mari dell’Uomo by
photographs Folco Quilici,
an exhibit dedicated to the great photographic work of Folco Quilici,
whose name is immediately associated with the knowledge of the sea. As a
matter of fact, he is one of the most important Italian documentary
makers and he has a very close relationship with the sea, that has ever
been his privileged discovery space and his faithful companion in his
personal and professional adventure.
18 ERNESTO NETO
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MACRO - Rome
Until February 28th 2009
www.macro.roma.museum/
The project that Neto has created especially for MACRO Hall is a large
installation that takes up the entire area of the Museum’s glazed
gallery, forming a sort of floating architecture with organic and floral
shapes that invite the visitor to go through and interact with them. The
sculpture, which is attached to the gallery’s glass roof trusses, is
suspended about one metre from the ground.
The Lycra contains ground spices: pepper, cumin, cloves, ginger and
curcuma. The almost anaesthetising aroma of the spices totally envelop
our sense of smell, conjuring up familiar or distant flavours and
memories, just as the sculptural forms invite us to touch and feel the
work with our hands, and listen in silence
19 ETRUSCANS.
THE ANCIENT CITIES OF LAZIO
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni -
Rome
October 16th 2008 – January 6th 2009
www.palazzoesposizioni.it
The
exhibition tells the story of the Etruscan civilization in Lazio and
describes its extraordinary level of achievement through the development
of its main urban centers.
Veii, Cerveteri, Vulci and Tarquinia were four cities that began life
with many of their more ancient features stemming from common roots,
only later going on gradually to differentiate from one another both in
terms of their artistic output and in more general terms of culture and
worship, of life style and of trading practices.
The individual
character of these four cities in southern
Etruria
is illustrated by a selection of some of the most important works of art
from each locality, many of which will be on public display for the very
first time.
20 CASA MALAPARTE
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Collezione Maramotti – Max Mara Old Factory
Reggio Emilia Until October 26th
www.collezionemaramotti.org
Two
large canvases on Casa Malaparte, icon of Italy’s Modernist
architecture, by artist Enoc Perez from Puerto Rico, are now on exhibit
in a space dedicated to commissioned projects by young artists, which
will be part of the permanent collection.
It is not by chance that the first temporary exhibition of the Maramotti
Collection – mostly focusing on painting – presents such artworks which
seem questioning the modernity of this language, a theme strongly
present in the invited artist’s work.
Enoc Perez builds his painting: he does not use brushes to make his
artworks, but a complex process composed of overlapping layers of
colours developed in a truly original fashion. His painting technique is
strongly consistent with the images present in his works and the
suggestions they evoke, symbols of beauty and power which could not or
knew not how to keep their promises and convey a feeling of nostalgic
delusion.
