Event organized on the occasion of the 16th Italian Contemporary Art Day, promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums (AMACI), with the support of the General Direction of Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The Italian Institutes abroad collaborate in this celebration, promoting Italian contemporary art in the world, creating contacts and exchanges of ideas and encouraging the sharing of experiences and projects between Italian and international artists.
The meeting aims, on one hand, to present a new generation of Italian painters in the United Arab Emirates, a highly interesting crossroads of cultures, quickly becoming an important cultural pole at a global level; on the other hand, we aim at highlighting the effervescent artistic panorama of the United Arab Emirates to the Italian public.
Due to the presence of an Emirates Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, inaugurated in 2014, we involved Elisabetta Barisoni, head of Venice main contemporary art museum, the International Gallery of Modern Art based in Ca’ Pesaro (https://capesaro.visitmuve.it/en/home), and the artist Paola Angelini, an emerging painter who can boast artist residences in Venice, both in Ca’ Pesaro and in the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (https://www.artinresidence.it/properties/fondazione-bevilacqua-la-masa/).
On the UAE side, Kevin Jones, art writer and educator (Dubai), and the Iraqi-Saudi calligraphy artist Majid Alyousef (Dubai) will participate.
Ida Zilio-Grandi, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Abu Dhabi, will introduce and moderate the meeting.
To partecipate to the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87319572857