ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE New York FEBRUARY 2015 FOLLOW US ON MARCO PAOLI PHOTOGRAPHY - Landscape photography as spiritual journey Open and will remain on display until March 11, 2015 In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia. THIS MARKS THE GRAND RE-OPENING OF THE GALLERIA BORGHESE EXHIBITION ROOM WED 4 6:00PM SIXTY YEARS OF HOLOCAUST RESEARCH IN ITALY: The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan (CDEC) Giorgio Sacerdoti (President, CDEC), Liliana Picciotto (CDEC) On the 60th anniversary of the CDEC, we honor the exceptional work of the young Italian Jews who after the war were committed to understand the tragedy their community suffered. The data that came to light, throughout the following decades, in archives inside and outside of Italy, was gathered by Liliana Picciotto in her Il libro della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall’Italia (1943 – 1945), Mursia, Milano, 1991 (e 2002). CDEC is the leading research institution on the history of the persecution of the Jews in Italy and has expanded its archive to include Italian Jewish life since the emancipation of 1861-1870 and the Italian Zionist experience. It now reaches international audiences by making available sixty years of research on the Shoah in Italy, dispelling misinterpretations of the persecution of Italian Jews, reflecting on the disintegration of civil liberties under fascism and on the politics of the construction of collective memory. Reception to follow THU 5 6:00PM RIGORISMO Exhibition Opening The Galleria Arte Centro Lattuada has selected seventeen artists that have decided to take on a challenge that would be proposed with the stamp of a more radical rigor. A “rigor” that forces space to become a thing, rather than for things to fill space. NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY OF THE EXILES AND FOIBE 2015 In 2004, the Italian Parliament instituted the National Day in memory of the foibe victims, of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus and of the historical events of the North-Oriental Italian boundary. The Exhibition shall remain open from February 5 through March 6 The National Memorial Day of the Exiles and foibe commemorates a very sad moment in the history of Italy. After sixty years, extensive and painful research has shed new light on this history: with the peace treaty of 1947, Italy lost vast territories in Istria, Fiume and along the coast of Dalmatia. Nearly 350,000 inhabitants of this region chose to leave their native lands, now part of Yugoslavia, to escape persecutory measures and proceeded to settle down in Italy. Italian Cultural Institute Consulate General of Italy There is an intellectual depth and philosophical conception, and it could be argued that this is a new beginning, which is inspired by the rigor of the forms and the relationship with space, hence Rigorism. Italian Cultural Institute WED 18 6:00PM THU 12 6:00PM CHANTS, BOXERS, WOUNDS Chants, Boxers, Wounds is an evening where the Italian writer Gabriele Tinti will read his poetry on boxing and will present Poetry Films, based on his text. Immediately following, there will be a discussion with actor Edoardo Ballerini, directors Michele Civetta and Robert Conticelli, and translator Nicholas Benson. Also present at the event will be Paulie Malignaggi (former Welterweight World Champion and commentator on the Showtime Network), Vito Antuofermo (former Middleweight World Champion and actor) and Vinny Maddalone (Italian American boxer). Italian Cultural Institute Italian Cultural Institute of New York 686 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 - USA tel: 212-879-4242, fax: 212-861-4018 [email protected] www.iicnewyork.esteri.it Hours of operation: Monday to Friday from10:00 am to 4:00 pm