Palermo
13^th -14^th May 2010
Representative office of the Fondazione Roma Mediterraneo
Piazza San Domenico, 1

The Fondazione Roma Mediterraneo promotes the International Conference Mediterraneo: Porta d’Oriente (The Mediterranean: Gateway to the East). The Conference will address themes such as the definition of the concept of the Mediterranean space, religious pluralism, solidarity networks in the Mediterranean and the training of a ruling class that will combine ethic and economic principles. Attended by experts, investigators and representatives of the business and institutional world, the conference will also examine the relationship between Italy (particularly Rome), the Mediterranean and the East. The aim is to overcome the fragmentariness of projects that currently distinguish the debate on the Mediterranean. A debate which to date has been restricted, in Italy, to a narrow circle of experts and has not managed to fully involve institutions, the economic world and public opinion.

Information and Programme at
www.fondazioneroma-mediterraneo.it

Rome
26^th May 2010
Fondazione Roma - Museo
Via del Corso 320
2nd Floor Conference Room
18.00 hrs

The South Korean poet KO UN, twice nominee for Nobel Prize in literature, will present the collection "L’Isola che canta” (LietoColle, 2009) in the Fondazione Roma. Attendees who will address the meeting: Antonella Anedda, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Ennio Cavalli, Anna Maria Farabbi, Giorgio Linguaglossa, Salvatore Martino, Vincenzo Mascolo, Angelo Sagnelli, Gabriella Sica.

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Rome
29^th April 2010
Fondazione Roma - Museo
Via del Corso 320
2^nd Floor
18.00 hrs

The magazine of poetry, prose and theatre ‘lìnfera’ will be presented by Roberto Raieli, Vice Director, Francesco Lioce and Marzia Spinelli, members of the editorial staff, in the Fondazione Roma. Two authors amongst the most devoted to the magazine since its establishment, Maria Luisa Spaziani and Fabio Pierangeli, will address the audience. During the debate regarding the planning and production of “línfera several guests and members of the editorial staff will read their texts.

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Information
www.linfera.it – redazione@linfera.it
www.progettocultura.it – info@progettocultura.it

Rome
18^th March 2010
Fondazione Roma - Museo
Via del Corso 320
2^nd Floor

An International symposium dedicated to the figure and works of one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosopher, Jacques Maritain, will be held in Fondazione Roma’s conference room.  Themes such as human rights, globalization and the channels of communication between different religions and cultures will be discussed during the conference organized by the Fondazione Roma and the Istituto Jacques Maritain in Rome.

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Conference organiser
Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain
Via Torino, 125/A
Phone: +39 06 4874336
Telefax: +39 06 4825188
convegni@maritain.org

Rome
16^th February – 13^th June 2010
Fondazione Roma Museo
Via del Corso, 320

Curated by
Carter E. Foster

For the first time in Italy, Milan and Rome pay tribute to the entire career of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the twentieth century’s most famous and popular American artist, with a major anthological exhibition that is the first of its kind in this country.
With over 180 thousand visitors, the exhibition held in the Palazzo Reale of Milan was a great success and is now eagerly awaited in Rome where it will be opened on the 16th January 2010 in the halls of the Museo Fondazione Rome with significant innovations: additional masterpieces coming from American museums, an original and suggestive setting and a new edition of the catalogue.

Promoted by the Fondazione Roma, chaired by Prof. Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele who originally conceived the event, the exhibition has been produced by the Comune di Milano – Cultura and the Arthemisia Group, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne.

Fondazione Roma Museo
Via del Corso, 320
Telephone: +39 06 678 62 09
www.fondazioneromamuseo.it

Information and bookings
Telephone: +30 199 202 202  or +39 0445 230 304

Rome
4^th November 2009 - 17^th January 2010
Fondazione Roma Museo
Via del Corso, 320

Curated by
Stefano Cecchetto

Over 100 works by  Niki de Saint-Phalle, (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1930 – San Diego, 2002) will be exhibited for the first time in Italy.  Artist, author and performer whose name is associated with an extraordinary artistic path that goes beyond classifications and fashions, mingled with a tumultuous and fascinating life. All her works, from the polychrome sculptures (Nanas) to the famous Giardino dei Tarocchi (the Tarot Garden) in Capalbio, reflect this energy.

The curator has created a route that follows the artist’s inner path. Consequently the exhibition aligns and compares many of her early paintings, those from the 1950s and 1960s and the polychrome Nanas for which Niki de Saint Phalle became famous throughout the world.

In over a 100 works, mainly from the Niki Charitable Art Foundation of San Diego in California, the  fascinating story of this artist is told both from an artistic and a personal point of view.

Femininity, mythology, violence, personal and social anxiety are themes that permeate the works of Niki de Saint Phalle.  Her life and work were inextricably linked. The exhibition, that also includes a series of photographs, reveals the fil-rouge that links the various and intersected personal experiences of her tormented artistic vicissitudes.

For further information please contact
Fondazione Roma Museo
T +39 066786209
www.fondazioneromamuseo.it

Rome, 22^nd September 2009
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica
Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Sala Dante
Via Poli, 54
5.00 p.m.

Presentation of Piranesi’s Modena Sketchbooks. Composed of almost 200 sheets, most of which are full of sketches and jottings, the Modena sketchbooks are today the most considerable nucleus of Piranesi’s etchings. Unpublished until now, both in quantity and quality they are surely the most important supplement to the already substantial amount of the artist’s drawings, estimated to be between six hundred and one thousand, of which only a small number are kept in Italian collections. This volume, sponsored by Fondazione Roma, is part of the overall project for the exhibition that the Foundation dedicated to the great master “La Roma di Piranesi. La città del Settecento nelle Grandi Vedute (Piranesi’s Rome. The eighteenth century city in his large views)” held in the Fondazione Roma Museo from the 14th November 2006 to the 25th February 2007.

* No registration fee required

Conference organiser
Fondazione Roma
Telephone + 39 06 697645100-101

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Rome, 17^th June 2009
Spazio Etoile
Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina 41
9.30 hrs

Fondazione Roma will present, in a medical scientific conference, the results of the call for proposals issued in 2008. Fifteen million Euro have been allocated to support thirteen highly qualified research projects on three thematic lines:

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Conference organiser
CrossGarden
Tel. 06 3241600
Fax 06 97602010
Email segreteria@crossgarden.eu

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17^th March – 13^th September 2009
Fondazione Roma – Museo
Rome, Via del Corso, 320

Curator: Gian Carlo Calza

This is the first exhibition to be held in Italy of paintings by one of the greatest 19th century Japanese artists and last exponent of the school of art of Ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) and woodblock prints, Utagawa Hiroshige (Tokyo, 1797-1858). Hiroshige was Known as “the Master of Nature” since he reached his highest artistic expression by depicting nature.

The exhibition explores all of Hiroshige’s works and favourite themes: nature, animals, landscapes, journeys. Hiroshige was such a successful artist as to be imitated, both in the East and in the West, by the greatest artists of the time such as Van Gogh, Manet, Monet and many others.

Over 200 works of art from the Honolulu Academy of Art in Honolulu will be displayed.

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