GIOSETTA FIORONI: L’ARGENTO
The Drawing Center presents Giosetta Fioroni: L’Argento, the artist’s first solo exhibition in North America. Featuring over seventy drawings, thirty paintings, ten illustrated books, two films, and related ephemera, Giosetta Fioroni: L’Argento will not only expand our understanding of post-World War II Italian art but also enable a crucial reinvestigation of the pop aesthetic more […]
Read more“Fall in Autumn” – New York City Premiere
It is Caterina Rago’s approach of surrendering her body to powerful emotion that inspires her blazing choreography. Rago originally from San Lucido, Italy, felt the desire to share her life as a new Italian in NYC. She officially founded the Caterina Rago Dance Company in 2007 (between rehearsals and performances with the Martha Graham Dance […]
Read moreNEW YORK PRIZE 2013
One Night only Exhibition of New York Prize 2013 Winnners Anna Franceschini and Francesco Arena.Anna Franceschini presents: For in and out, above, about, below, ‘Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-Show / Act IIFrancesco Arena presents: One and 2974 persons RSVP: events.iicnewyork.esteri.it or aj211@columbia.edu
Read moreItalian International Dance Festival
The Italian International Dance Festival is a festival that involves Italian dancers, companies and choreographers. A moment of exchange between artists of the new and old world, an “Embrace of Art” where two cultures meet to share this art. The gala evening will host a Lifetime Achievement Award. On the first day, lessons with Italian […]
Read more55th VENICE BIENNALE
The Encliclopaedic Palace Press Conference Press Conference to present the 55th Venice Biennale “The Enclicopaedic Palace”Speakers will include: Paolo Baratta, President of la Biennale di Venezia and Massimiliano Gioni, Curator of the 55th International Art Exhibition
Read morePIERCING THE PAGE. SELECTED POEMS 1958-1989
Antonio Porta represents one of the highest and most intense poetic achievements of postwar Italy. Porta conceived poetry as an open and endless project, a work in progress in which the exploration of language and the inquisitive gaze on the world always coincide. The result is a verbal tension and a cognitive restlessness that are […]
Read moreIN DEFENCE OF ARCHITECTURE: ITALY AND US
Seminar Peter Eisenman is currently professor at the School of Architecture at Yale University and visiting professor at Princeton. He is one of the founding theorists of postmodern architecture.
Read moreTHIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA
Italian Contemporary Art- Antonio Stellatelli Collection Book Presentation The book that we are going to present “This is not Propaganda” tells of the last twenty years of the history of Italian art. Not any old history, but the history that can be read through more than 400 artworks, paintings, sculptures and photographs, put together over […]
Read moreDIEGO PERRONE: SCULTURA CHE NON SIA CONCHIGLIA NON CANTA
Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce Scultura che non sia conchiglia non canta, an exhibition of new work by Diego Perrone (b. 1970, Asti).Perrone’s work utilizes a vocabulary of repeated references including ears, horns and bells that result in various shapes and new forms. Despite these reiterations, his works do not coalesce into a singular […]
Read moreRavenna after Fifteen Centuries
“Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries” is a conference conceived to promote the Italian city of Ravenna.With a history that spans for more than fifteen centuries and with eight UNESCO monuments, the thrice empire capital Ravenna is now considered a model for a small global city. The initiative, prompted by the University of Bologna and Ravenna Municipality, […]
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