SUMI-E practical workshop with artist Mauro De Giorgi
SUMI-E is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. Emphasis lays on the beauty of each individual stroke of the brush and the ability to capture the spirit (Ch’i) of nature rather than a photographic likeness. During the workshop, led by Italian artist Mauro De Giorgi, students will be introduced to the “Four Treasures” (The […]
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When Gods Walked the Earth
Contemporary Art Exhibition by artist Mauro De Giorgi, curated by Prof Paolo Diego Bubbio When Gods Walked the Earth is a project developed through a series of artworks inspired by René Girard’s mimetic theory, and developed through an intellectual dialogue between artist Mauro De Giorgi and philosopher Diego Bubbio over the past few years. The […]
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From Sicily to Peppimenarti, Art Residencies
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present a project based an exchange of experiences between Sicily and Australia. In particular, the presentation will illustrate an exchange of art residencies which took place in July this year between Sicily (at the Fondazione Brodbeck in Catania and at the Museo Palazzo Riso in Palermo) and […]
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Il padre d’Italia (The Father From Italy)
Of Love and Friendship The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is reniewing in 2019 its fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, proposing a new cycle of screenings called Of Love and Friendship, which will include movies produced in the last years which will touch upon themes that are certainly very familiar to the majority […]
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Remembering Bernardo Bertolucci: Novecento and The Conformist
Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 On the occasion of the 20th Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which will start on the 17th of September in Sydney, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, wishes to commemorate the recent departure, in November 2018, of one of the undisputed masters of Italian cinema, […]
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2019 European Day of Languages
As part of the celebration of the 18th European Day of Languages, EUNIC in Australia Sydney (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Alliance Française, British Council, Goethe Institut, Instituto Cervantes) will offer a unique approach to European languages and cultures. Instituto Cervantes Sydney will be for a day the hub for the European culture and its languages: […]
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Aspromonte, Land of the Forgotten
Special guest: director Mimmo Calopresti Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 On the occasion of the 20th Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which will start on the 17th of September in Sydney, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, is pleased to present the Australian première of Aspromonte, la terra degli ultimi […]
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Designed in Italy, Made in Australia. Discovering the Australian Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
Curated by Paolo Stracchi, University of Sydney Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) was a structural engineer but also a revolutionary Italian master builder, architect and artist, who forged, through the invention of the Sistema Nervi – Nervi System – a new structural aesthetic for modern architecture. In Australia, the Sistema Nervi was for the first time […]
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Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019
2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, and as every year the Festival will present in all the major Australian cities the best of contemporary Italian cinema as well as some classics. In Sydney the Festival will be held between the 17th of September and the 16th of October in all […]
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The Medicine Seller (Il venditore di medicine)
Cinema Italia Life in a Time of Crisis – An Italian Perspective The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is proud to announce the launch of a collaboration with Palace Cinemas which will present a series of screenings as well as retrospectives dedicated to some of the most significant cultural and social aspects of Italian life as […]
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