September 2024

Italy

1. Venice Biennale Cinema 2024
www.labiennale.org/it/cinema/2024

2. Venice Biennale Arte 2024 – Venice ( April 20-November 24)
The international Exhibition is on display in the Central Pavilion at Giardini and at the Arsenale, divided into two distinct sections: Nucleo Contemporaneo and Nucleo Storico. The Exhibition also includes 86 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city centre of Venice. Four countries participate for the first time at the Biennale Arte: Republic of Benin, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, and United Republic of Tanzania. www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024

3.William De Kooning L’Italia – Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, ( April 17 -September 15 )
https://www.gallerieaccademia.it/willem-de-kooning-e-litalia

4. Botero at Palazzo Bonaparte , Rome (September 17, 2024 – January 19, 2025)
On the occasion of the Jubilee, from 17 September 2024 to 19 January 2025, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome will host a major exhibition dedicated to the recently deceased Colombian artist Fernando Botero .With paintings, watercolours, sculptures and some unpublished works , the exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte, entirely dedicated to Botero, is the most complete ever exhibited in the capital. Through medium and large-sized works with three-dimensional effects and often bright colours to represent the sumptuous roundness of the artist’s feminine universe, it is anything but synonymous with sensuality or naive  aesthetics ; what Bolero represents is not reality in itself, but covered in a patina of hyper-realist ambiguity.

5.Napoli Film Festival Naples (September 25th-28th)
www.napolifilmfestival.com/nff

6. Opera di Roma 2024 Season Rome ( May – November)
https://www.operaroma.it/en

7. Rossini Opera Festival – Pesaro – (February 24th to November 16th 2024)
www.rossinioperafestival.it

8. MANTUA LITERATURE FESTIVAL – Mantova (September 04 – 08, 2024)
Since 1997, Festivaletteratura has been one of the most anticipated Italian cultural events of the year: five days of meetings with authors, readings, guided tours, shows, concerts with artists from all over the world, who meet in Mantua to experience an unforgettable party atmosphere.

The Festival features internationally renowned narrators and poets, the most interesting voices of emerging literature, as well as essayists, musicians, artists, scientists, according to a broad and curious meaning of literature, which does not deny itself the knowledge of territories and languages far from traditional canons.Special attention is paid to children and adolescents: numerous meetings, shows and workshops are designed just for children or for adults and children together. All in Mantua, a pearl of the Renaissance recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site, where the intimate dimension of the city brings authors and readers closer together, allowing everyone to easily move on foot from one event to another. For more information, visit the official website.

9. Catania Book Festival 2024 – Catania, (September 27- 29, 2024)
From 27 to 29 September 2024, the city of Catania becomes the cultural center of the country, talking about poetry, sports, art, cinema, science, innovation and much more during the  International Book and Culture Fair . The city of Catania, in fact, will welcome authors, publishers, artists and great performers in a three-day event full of events and workshops .

10. Baths of Caracalla Rome , ( May 15th- November 3rd, 2024)
Photography in the Mirror  is the title of the exhibition project that features shots by 35 great masters such as Simon Annand, Eve Arnold, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Cecil Beaton, Ilse Bing, Claude Cahun, Robert Capa, Lisetta Carmi, Mat Collishaw, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Burt Glinn, Guido Harari, Florence Henri, Frank Horvat, David James, Richard Kalvar, Astrid Kirchner, Hiroji Kubota, Herbert List, Giorgio Lotti, Fabio Lovino, René Maltête, Fosco Maraini, Simone Martinetto, Duane Michals, Inge Morath, Philippe Morillon, Helmut Newton, Guido Rey, Steve Schapiro, Ferdinando Scianna, Jeanloup Sieff and Wanda Wulz.

Just as the theme of the double, of the mirror, of looking in and reflecting oneself, eternalized by Narcissus, is timeless, as demonstrated by the infinite versions of the myth. The exhibition, promoted by the Special Superintendency of Rome, directed by Daniela Porro, and organized by Electa with the curatorship of Nunzio Giustozzi, creates a highly engaging path through semantic games between cultural topoi and collective imagination. A total of 78 author’s shots divided into three sections, set up in two covered spaces and in the natatio that contribute to the construction of the renovation path of the Baths of Caracalla, inspired by the director of the monument Mirella Serlorenzi.  Serlorenzi.


11. “Oliviero Toscani: photographer by profession”- Marina di Bibbona ( December 2023 – November 1st 2024)
At the Forte dei Cavalleggeri in Marina di Bibbona, over 100 shots by Oliviero Toscani , the revolutionary Italian photographer, are on display. The over 60-year career of the man who changed the way of talking about social problems in Italy is retraced through his ironic, funny, crude and shocking photographs. Images that have brought the most controversial current issues before the eyes of public opinion: the photo of an AIDS patient, the famous advertising campaign “Whoever loves me, follows me” for Jesus Jeans, the kiss between a priest and a nun. And again, the shots that recall racism, the death penalty, war, violence, anorexia.Also on display are portraits of the world’s most famous top models, iconic rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Lou Reed portrayed in the 70s, or a very young Patti Smith fresh from moving to New York.
One room is dedicated to the Razza Umana project , with which Oliviero Toscani has traveled hundreds of squares around the world to photograph anyone who wanted to, giving life to the largest existing photographic archive on the morphological and social differences of humanity.

12. Treviso Comic Book Festival – Treviso (September 27-29, 2024)
The festival, organized by the Fumetti in Treviso association , was born 20 years ago and immediately proposed itself as a cultural platform for the city. Squares, museums, bookshops and clubs will host comics, illustrations but also music, design, graphics, literature, cinema and so on, in a ” widespread ” festival , as they say . Italian and international guests , a market exhibition involving various Italian publishers and a wide selection of exhibitions will take place in various locations around the beautiful setting of the city.

13. TERRA MADRE – SALONE DEL GUSTO 2024, Torino , Parco Dora (September 26 – 30, 2024)
Finding a new alliance between humans and nature, based on relationships and not on oppression, starting with food, which represents culture, sharing, pleasure, but which is also the most powerful element that brings us back to the earth, the soil, the water. This is the call that the public attending  Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2024 will respond to , in Turin,  Parco Dora, from 26 to 30 September.  Terra Madre also brings its message elsewhere, throughout the city of Turin, with the  OFF program,  many opportunities to deepen your knowledge of Turin and the theme of our relationship with nature thanks to parties, book presentations, meetings, dinners, exhibitions, guided tours and much more! As always, Terra Madre Salone del Gusto will also be preceded by a rich program of initiatives, in Turin, in Piedmont, throughout Italy and in the world, which will become part of the official calendar of  THE ROAD TO TERRA MADRE.