CULTURAL EVENTS
VERSO L’ALTO. L’ASCESA COME ESPERIENZA DEL SACROForte
di Bard – Aosta 9th April – 30th August 2009
www.fortedibard.it
This exhibition will unravel around the symbolic,
spiritual and anthropological value of the mountain as a
place of solitude and meditation. This is a journey
through art history, photographs and objects from
diverse cultures in the world.
HIROSHIGE
Roma, Museo del Corso – 17th March – 7th
June
ANDREA BROSOLON
Palazzo Crepadona – Belluno
28th March – 12th July 2009
After Caffi and Tiziano Palazzo Crepadona is hosting a
great exhibition dedicated to Andrea Brustolon, the
famous artist from Belluno. The exhibition includes
sacred and secular works with precious decorative
features. There will be over 100 wooden creations that
run through the evolution of sculpture. The exhibition
will be enriched with external itineraries in a type of
spread out museum with the aim of including large works
and altar-pieces that are difficult to transport, the
most famous being in the Duomo and the local churches of
Santo Stefano and San Pietro.
Museo Correr – Venezia 5th June – 4th
October 2009
The Museo Correr will be host to an exhibition dedicated
to the centenary of the futurist movement. Even today
its artistic message maintains its originality and the
power of innovation in the first great Italian
avant-garde movement, founded by Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti in 1909.
FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
Stresa – 2nd -17th May 2009
The Stresa Festival has reopened its doors the public
with “I Concerti di Primavera” (Spring Concerts). There
will be five open-air musical appointments every weekend
of May held in the parks that overlook Lake Maggiore.
FABBRICA EUROPA FESTIVAL
Firenze – 5th – 23rd May 2009
Fabbrica Europa is an International Festival that will
take place at Stazione Leopolda di Firenze and will host
artists and international dance, music and theatre
groups as well displays of contemporary art. The
projects presented are all original pieces. The
festival aims to encourage the exchange of ideas and
works with the conviction that intercultural dialogue is
a fundamental instrument in order to understand and
value differences in the creative atmosphere.
San Vito Lo Capo . 23rd – 31st May
The first edition of the International Kite Festival of
San Vito Lo Capo will presented at the BIT of Milano and
will be twinned with the event in Cervia where the
festival has become a traditional part of the year’s
calendar.
FESTIVAL DEGLI AQUILONI (Kite Festival)
Andalo – 13th – 21st June 2009
TRADITIONS
Venezia – 24th May 2009
www.comune.venezia.it
IL PALIO DI FERRARA
Ferrara – 31st May 2009
NOTE: 22nd March-3rd May there
will be the “Omaggio al Duca” (Tribute to the Duke) at
the Castello Estense. From 9th - 30th
May there will be events in preparation for the finals.
Treviso and Venezia – 21st February - 21st
June 2009
La Primavera del Prosecco is an event with an
enogastronomic itinerary that begins in Alta Marca
Trevigiana and spans to the Adriatic Coast. There is a
rich calendar of wine and food tasting as well as the
allocation of the Gran Premio del Prosecco.
Alto Adige – 14th May – 13th June
2009
www.sudtiroler-weinstrasse.it
Fifteen wine growing areas in Alto Adige in the province
of Bolzano will be host to the showing and tasting of
typical wines from the area. This is an occasion to
combine the knowledge of wine with interesting
historical and cultural locations that make up the stops
along the Strada del Vino and South-Tyrol.
ART AND EXHIBITIONS
FUTURISMI
Centro Saint
Until
On the 100th
anniversary of the publication of the futuristic paper,
the public will be presented with a selection of works by
various artists from diverse museums of contemporary art
including MART in Rovereto as well as private collections.
DREAMING LA
CHAPELLE
Galleria
Poggiali e Forconi –
1st March – 6th
May 2009
The Galleria
Poggiali e Forconi is hosting the life and works of by David
LaChapelle composed of 39 photographic works and the backstage
video of the artist’s spectacular work that has been inspired by
the painting in the Sistine Chapel.
GALILEO.
IMMAGINI
www.palazzostrozzi.org
In keeping
with the celebrations of the International year of Astronomy,
Palazzo Strozzo is hosting an exhibition that has been entirely
dedicated to Galileo and his astronomical discoveries that were
achieved thanks to the telescope. Four hundred years on from
the first observation of the Universe, the International
Astronomical Union has organized a series of worldwide events to
celebrate a discipline that has had and still has a profound
impact on our culture and our knowledge of life and its
evolution.
CY TWOMBLY
Galleria
Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Roma –
The GNAM is
paying tribute to Cy Twombly, considered to be one of the most
important painters still alive. The exhibition will include
around 100 works, and although it is a retrospective of the 50s,
it is focused on the great collection of canvases that make up
the series of cycles of the post war years until the Quattro
Stagioni series to conclude with paintings of Bacchus. This is
an event to celebrate Twombly’s 80 years who has chosen
FESTIVALS
AND EVENTS
WALKING
FESTIVAL
3 April
Parco
dell’Arcipelago Toscano-Parco di Migliarino San Possore – Parco
Regionale delle Alpi Apuane
2 October
Parco Naturale
della Maremma
The walking
festival includes walks along forest and seaside tracks offering
participants the opportunity to experience the traditions and
culture of small villages that have been immersed in nature.
This is a not to miss event in the discovery of hidden and
secret protected areas of the
The Capri Art
Film Festival is an event that reunites passion for art and
literature, theatre and music. The literary section has been
introduced this year with seminars that have been organised in
collaboration with the Scuola Omero di Roma.
FESTIVAL ARTE
CONTEMPORANEA
www.festivalartecontemporanea.it
This is the
first festival that has been dedicated to international
contemporary art and its protagonists. It is an event that
presents itself as a space that is open to diverse points of
view and has allowed for the presentation of the diversity and
the geographical, cultural and disciplinary wealth of today’s
art in order to discover the art of the future.
Roberta Meago
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Jana Vodesil-Baruffi was born in Czech Republic and in 1981 she emigrated to Australia. She has been interested in art since childhood. She became a successful artist living in Perth, Western Australia. In 1987 she held her first solo exhibition in Australia. The 5th exhibition she hold in October 2008. Since April 2009 Jana is traveling throughout Italy, painting as well as enjoying the history, culture, art, music, architecture, fashion, food and art and generally absorbing the Italian lifestyle. She has began the year in Italy running a successful art tour for art lovers and students from Australia. 27 people traveled to paint and share Jana’s love of Italy. Currently she is staying in Tresivio, a small village very close to Sondrio. She admires the mountains, wonderfully friendly people and local lifestyle. Last weekend Jana participated in Scarpatetti art festival in Sondrio. It has been a joyful weekend, meeting other artists, artisans and many wonderful people who came to admire the art. She felt extremely privileged to be given such an opportunity to show her art and it has been certainly the highlight of her travels so far. She is preparing for solo exhibition in Arezzo in October and later in her travels in Sondrio. In addition she is also getting ready to exhibit with the gallery in New York in 2001 as well as showing her Italian love affair works in Perth late in 2010.