Last week, Italian artist friend of mine Gaetano Fiore asked me if I would like to attend the opening evening of the Anima Mundi exhibition at the Galleria Zamenhof in Milan. I’m pleased to say that I went, and aside from learning more about Italy’s contemporary art market, I also met some talented artists, and a interesting gallery owner.
The works of my Italian artist friend Gaetano Fiore are going to be on show as part of the Post-Avanguardia exhibition which opens a little latter this month in the Castello Estenese in Ferrara, I’m pleased to announce.
Ever heard of Alessandro Acerra? I hope so, but if you have not, you may well do quite soon, for his work as been creating quite a stir in Italy’s contemporary art scene. This weekend an event is being held at the headquarters of Italian financial newspaper and publishing group, Il Sole 24 Ore at Via Monte Rosa, 91.
Unsurprisingly in an Italy city famed for such beauty and creativity that it may even lead to attacks of Stendhal syndrome, there is an annual celebration of creativity in the form of the International Arts and Crafts exhibition in Florence, Italy.
Deep down in the Le Marche region of Italy there is, I am reliably informed, a fabulous bi-annual battle re-enactment which takes place in a lovely hilltop Italian town called San Ginesio.
Yes, that’s right. This very evening. Kathleen Warner has contacted me to let me know that if you would like to volunteer to help out
From the 7 July (today) until the 7 August 2008, in Milan’s Arena Civica, the Milano Jazzin Festival is to be held. Some big names
“soundSCAPE? What’s soundSCAPE (…and why is it written in a funny way?)”, I asked myself, and headed on over to the soundSCAPE Pavia website to find out.
This year’s edition of the intriguing Nola Festival, which I wrote about in my Gigli Festival, Nola, Italy post, is just over a month away.
