SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER ART EXHIBITION 26th August – 8th September MADE IN ITALY Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Aprile – Corni – Frangi Curator: Caterina Corni 1st September, 6:00 p.m. BOOK RELEASE AND ART EXHIBITION Book Building, Chennai CHARLES DICKENS: PICTURES FROM ITALY 8th September, 6:30 p.m. Art by Livia Signorini British Council Division New Delhi LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 5th September, 6:30 p.m. (Set in Turin) 8th September, 2:00 p.m. A/R ANDATA E RITORNO Multimedia Hall Round Trip Director: Marco Ponti 10th - 28th September SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ROADSHOW Bangalore and Goa Screening of the film “l’Italia del Futuro” LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 12th September, 6:30 p.m. (Set in the suburbs of Milan) 15th September, 2:00 p.m. FAME CHIMICA Multimedia Hall Chemical Hunger Directors: Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola 18th – 30th September ART EXHIBITION Exhibition Hall THE PROCESS OF UNKNOWING by Simona Bocchi LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 19th September, 6:30 p.m. (Set in the Friuli region) 22nd September, 2:00 p.m. LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO Multimedia Hall The Girl by the Lake Director: Andrea Molaioli 26th September, 6:30 p.m. (Set in Venice) 29th September, 2:00 p.m. DIECI INVERNI Multimedia Hall Ten Winters Director: Valerio Mieli 3rd October, 6:30 p.m. (Set in Puglia) 6th October, 2:00 p.m. MINE VAGANTI Multimedia Hall Director: Ferzan Ozpetek index index9th October , 7:00 pm NCPA, Mumbai JAZZ CONCERT 26th October , 6:30 pm LUCA CIARLA QUARTET DIAF, New Delhi 10th October, 6:30 p.m. LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 13th October, 2:00 p.m. (Set in Naples) Multimedia Hall BASTA UN NIENTE Before you know it Director: Ivan Polidoro 15th - 21st October 2012 XII SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA NEL MONDO XII ITALIAN LanguagE WEEK IN THE WORLD 15th October, 6:30 p.m. LUIGI PIO TESSITORI An Italian life devoted to India Talk by Prof. Furio Honsell, Mayor of Udine, and Ex Vice Chancellor at the University of Udine. 15th - 31st October 2012 PHOTO EXHIBITION Exhibition Hall TINA MODOTTI: Between Art and Revolution “Italy - Mexico - India” 17th - 31st October 2012 DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITION National Archives of India VOYAGE TO INDIA New Delhi By Ludovico De Varthema (1502-1508) PHOTO EXHIBITION 18th - 31st October 2012 INNER SPACE Exhibition Hall by Patrizia Maïmouna Guerresi CONCERT 19th October 2012 AlTempAlPassa Multimedia Hall A collection of songs by Marco Zappa in collaboration with Embassy of Switzerland 20th October 2012 BOOK RELEASE Multimedia Hall BUONGIORNO ITALIA By Carlo Buldrini and Federica Oddera Lanfranchi 15th – 20th October PROJECT KINOTEKAS University of Delhi Week of European Films in collaboration 22nd – 27th October with the EU Delegation Jamia Millia Islamia BENVENUTI AL NORD Welcome to the North 29th October – 2nd November Director: Luca Miniero Jawaharlal Nehru University LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 17th October, 6:30 p.m. (Set in Sicily) 20th October, 2:00 p.m. L’AVVENTURA Multimedia Hall The Adventure Director: Michelangelo Antonioni 18th – 25th October MUMBAI FILM FESTival National Centre for the Focus on Italian Cinema Performing Arts, Mumbai 24th October, 6:30 p.m. LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 27th October, 2:00 p.m. (Set in Sardinia) Multimedia Hall BALLO A TRE PASSI Three Step Dancing Director: Salvatore Mereu 31st October, 6:30 p.m. LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA 3rd November, 2:00 p.m. (Set in Emilia Romagna) Multimedia Hall NON PENSARCI Don’t think about it Director: Gianni Zanasi All events take place in the Cultural Centre unless otherwise mentioned. Programmes might be subject to change. Please refer to website www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it or contact the reception desk for updated information index art ART EXHIBITION 26th August – 8th September Sakshi Gallery Tanna House, 11- A, Nathalal Parekh Marg Colaba, Mumbai- 400001 MADE IN ITALY Antonella Aprile Azelio Corni Giovanni Frangi Curator: Caterina Corni Antonella Aprile, received the Premio Arti Visive in Milan for Best Artist (young talent) in 2011. Her work was selected by the Lombardy Region to represent Italy at the ‘Biennial of young artists of Europe and Mediterranean’. Azelio Corni was the first artist to participate at the event Festa Italiana in Mumbai. He has participated in many personal and collective art exhibitions around the world. Giovanni Frangi is amongst the most acclaimed artists of the Italian contemporary art panorama. He has many important personal exhibitions the world over. Event organized by Sakshi Gallery in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura and with the patronage of Consulate General of Italy. 5 CHARLES DICKENS: PICTURES FROM ITALY ART BY LIVIA SIGNORINI Pictures from Italy is one of Charles Dickens’ earlier works, a fantastic and whimsical foray into the twin worlds of travel and imagination. Inspired by his words, Italian artist Livia Signorini plays with Dickens’ sense of place, memory and politics. The result is a brilliant contemporary dialogue with his work – a reading of history, time and 1change – which renews our sense of his enduring vision. Pictures from Italy is a tribute to the world of the great master in the 200th year of his birth. Event organized by Tara Books, British Council Division and Istituto Italiano di Cultura. 1st September, 6:00 p.m. Book Building Plot No. 9, CGE Colony Off Kuppam Beach Road Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, 8th September, 6:30 p.m. British Council Division 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi book launch cinema Photo by Luigi GhirriPhoto by FILMCLUB THEME: LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA In cinema the word landscape does not signify just the relationship between actors and space, between a person and the world but creates an entire range of association amongst different levels of vision: there is the observer who is the actor in the film and then there is the camera that observes the observer. Landscape in a film hence becomes a starting point for reflecting about the film and the act of watching becomes the cognitive factor. Beyond the observer and the camera lies another gaze, in ambush, in the shadows: that of the spectator, who organizes and constructs his rapport with the film according to the ever diverse cultural codes and models within the available space and time. To reflect on landscape therefore means to reckon with three visual experiences: the gaze of the actors in the film, the gaze of the film and the gaze on the film, that of the audience. Italian cinema in the second half of the 20th Century has been a cinema of magnificent landscapes. In these films the landscape element sometimes donned the mantle of a real actor, a negotiator and many times a ruthless adversary to the mainstream actors. The rapport between actor and landscape has often raised a debate about our culture, almost always knowingly, about the entire system of codes inside which each one lives and book launch without which none would ever have an identity.5 LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (SET IN TURIN) A/R ANDATA E RITORNO Round Trip 2004, 110 min Director: Marco Ponti Cast: Kabir Bedi, Libero Di Rienzo, Vanessa Incontrada Dante Cruciani, 25, a resident of Turin, is a bike messenger hard up for 5cash who decides to borrow some money from a loan shark named Skorpio. Unable to pay it back, he flees to Barcelona. Nina, a flight attendant with a Spanish airline, gets stuck in Turin when the city is shut down by a general strike. After a short stint in prison, Dante returns to his apartment only to find Nina put up there by Dante’s best friend Tolstoj due to overcrowding at the hotels. A romance develops between the two, who must now take a flight together as Skorpio closes in. 5th September, 6:30 p.m. 8th September, 2:00 p.m. Multimedia Hall cinema science 10th - 28th September Bangalore and Goa SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ROADSHOW Awareness Raising and Information Campaign in India on the Possibilities of Research & Innovation Cooperation with Europe Screening of ITALIA DEL FUTURO (Italy of the Future), a film by Alberto Angela, which is a fascinating and touching journey that runs through the history of Italy, her successes and future prospects, from research to technology of the recent past, from health to art, with a little robot iCub as its protagonist, born in the Italian Centre for Technology in Genoa. In order to raise awareness in India and the neighbouring countries regarding the possibilities of research and innovation cooperation with Europe, the EU Countries have launched an information campaign across the subcontinent, enriching this road show with collateral cultural events. The flow chart of all the events will be available on the website of the Delegation of the European Union to India closer to the dates of the event. Event organised by EU Delegation in collaboration with the Embassies and the Cultural Centres10 of EU Countries. LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (SET IN THE SUBURBS OF MILAN) FAME CHIMICA Chemical Hunger 2004, 97 min. Directors: Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola Cast: Mimmo Allanprese, Joel Bossi and Andrea Canesi | In the southern suburbs of Milan, two friends Claudio and Manuel, who keep meeting each other in the square where they grew up, bring forth two different life-styles: the first has a regular and under- 12paid job, while the second lives as a drug-pusher. In the backdrop of social and racial tensions that bring to light all kinds of violence, the two friends would eventually face their feelings about a girl who breaks into their lives. The two directors narrate a peripheral microcosm where the residents, donning the mask of aspirations to preserve and improve relationships, reveal their own discomforts and prejudices for immigrants. 12th September, 6:30 p.m.