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Exhibition in Rome at the Bramante’s Cloister of Villa Borghese Park… during the nineteenth century, France was the point of reference for many artists, including many Italians, led to a continuous comparison with the art of that nation.

The exhibition presents the biographical stories of three famous Italians of Paris, De Nittis, Boldini and Zandomeneghi in places symbol of the myth of modernity of Paris, theatres, cafes, boulevards, ateliers of famous artists and those discharged bohemian painters. During the exhibition you will find the splendid masterpieces by Vittorio Corcos, Antonio Mancini, Paul Helleu, Leon Bonnat, Telemaco Signorini and Serafino De Tivoli.

The exhibition will be staged until 14 March 2010 at the Cloister of Bramante of Villa Borghese Park in Rome.

For the occasion, Hotel Traiano offers you the opportunity to stay in a 4 star hotel, in the center of Rome and not far from the place of the exhibition.

The seventh edition of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence will take place from 5th - 13th December 2009.

The seventh edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from 5th - 13th December 2009. 650 artists coming from 78 countries will be exhibiting more than 2.000 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles. The Florence Biennale supports the United Nations program “Dialogue between civilizations”, to which the Biennale has officially adhered since 2001.

The Biennale will also see the presence of important artists. In the 2007 edition, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. The 2009 Life Achievement award will be given to Marina Abramovic and Shu Yong for their contribution to the International Contemporary Art Scene.

The International Scientific Committee (I.S.C.), composed of 20 qualified members, categorizes the works in the categories of painting, sculpture, graphic, mixed media, installation, photography and digital art. The selection is done with no prejudice of style. Artists are selected based on the quality of their artwork and the cultural values their work represents.

The International Jury that assigns recognitions and awards to the invited artists is composed of distinguished figures such Elza Ajzenberg, exhibition curator of the MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Dominique Edouard Bacheler, art history professor and art critic, Paris; Pang Bang Ben, artist and professor, China; R.B. Bhaskaran, past President of Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Francesco Buranelli, General Manager of the Pontifical Commission for the Church’s Cultural Beings; Pasquale Celona, President of the Biennale, Florence; Piero Celona, General Manager of the Biennale, Florence; Gregorio Luke, past Director of the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) Long Beach, California; Bianca Laura Petretto, Curator, journalist, expert on modern and Asian arts, Italy; Matty Roca member of AICA and President of the Arts Corporation in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico; Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director of the Ars Electronica Center of Linz - Austria; Rosa Tejada, educator at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; and Stefano Francolini, Artistic Director of the Biennale, former Director of the C3 Super of the Ministry of the Cultural Activities, Florence, Italy.

The Florence Biennale is organized by Arte Studio.
Fortezza da Basso Florence - 5-13 Decembre 2009 - hours: 10-20 - info: + 39 0553249173
tickets 10 euro
for further information: www.florencebiennale.org

Lorenzo il Magnifico award to Marina Abramovic
The Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence dedicated, as is customary, the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award an international recognition of contemporary artistic culture to those particularly outstanding and that still continue to stand by their work.
The VII Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence awards the “Lorenzo il Magnifico career ” award to Marina Abramovic, one of the most important and interesting contemporary performers.
Of Yugoslav origin, active from the 1970s with a series of memorable performances, in which the artist’s body is the matter and central part of the work of her research on the limits of human physicality, Marina Abramovic, the experiences through violence to the point of putting her own body at risk with the presence and use of dangerous items including “On the table there are seventy-two objects that can be used at will on me. I am the object “(Studio Morra, Naples, 1974), truly involving her public, for example, in the famous performance weightlessness (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, 1977), made with the German artist Ulay ( Uwe Laysiepen), with whom she has an artistic partnership since 1976 and from which it split in 1989 upon completion of their performance ‘Great Wall Walk’: their meeting in the middle of the Great Wall of China, 2000 kilometers long, after a journey that lasted ninety days.
Through the testing of physical and psychological limits of her existence, Marina Abramovic withstands pain, exhaustion, fear and danger in seeking conversion of their emotional and spiritual sphere.

Marina Abramovic has presented and presents her work with images, sounds and video in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Since 1991 she has taught in Germany at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. In 1997 the XLVII Venice Biennale has received the Golden Lion for ‘Balkan Baroque’, eight hour performance, during which Marina Abramovic cleans one hundred cow femurs, an action that becomes the symbol to cancel the atrocities that her countrymen have committed in ethnic conflicts, the Balkan in the 90s.

This work, together with the performances ‘The Hero’ (2001), ‘Count On’, ‘Nude with Skeleton’ (2003) and ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’ (2005), was part of her exhibition entitled “Balkan Epic” held Hangar Bicocca in Milan in 2006.
In 2003 Marina Abramovic received the New York Dance and Performance Award The Bessies for ‘The House with Ocean View’ a twelve-day performance at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
In 2005 she presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York a series of performances entitled ‘Seven Easy Pieces’.
The works of Marina Abramovic are present in the most important contemporary art collections in the world.

Stefano Francolini
Artistic Director VII Biennale

Collateral events

5 December 11:00am
Opening

5 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

6 December 11:00am
An Artist and a Scientist: a common way
Lecture by Francesco Saverio Pavone and Dony Mac Manus
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

6 December 5:30pm
Living Arts of Contemporary India
Lecture by Sushma Bahl

7 December 11:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
When The Last Sword Is Drawn by Takita Yojiro
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

7 December 5:30pm
Octavio Paz Art and thought
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

7 December 7:30pm
Saint James Church
Artists projects: Paul Lorenz, Barbro Eriksson, Danielle Lindsay

8 December 11:00am
Mathematics as an Art form
Lecture by Vanni Noferini
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

8 December 5:30pm
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic meets Biennale’s artists
followed by the presentation of the award Lorenzo il Magnifico to Marina Abramovic

9 December 11:00am
Canvas, Paper, Plastic: Abstraction in 2-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

9 December 5:30pm
Rufino Tamayo master of light and color
Lecture by Gregorio Luke

10 December 11.00am
Art and Chemistry as reciprocal sources of inspiration
Lecture by Cristiana Lofrumento
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

10 December 5:00pm
Japanese Cinema: an insight into Japanese films
Tokyo Sonata by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
in collaboration with Kaori Watanabe

11 December 11:00am
Can Carbon-14 be a suitable dating tool even for contemporary art authentication?
Lecture by Mariaelena Fedi
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

11 December 5:30pm
Stone, Bronze, Wood: Abstraction in 3-D
Lecture by Paul Lorenz

12 December 11:00am
Art and symmetries
Lecture by Roberto Casalbuoni
in collaboration with OpenLab Florence University

12 December 4:00pm
Development of Art in China
Lecture by Zhang Hongbin
followed by the Lorenzo il Magnifico prize ceremony awarded to
Shu Yong

12 December 9:00pm
Gala Dinner

13 December 3:00pm
Awards ceremony

Press office: Studio Abba tel. +39 055292082 - info@studioabba.com - www.studioabba.com

Experiences from the Meyer Hospital Florence, Marseilles and Manchester.
International conference
Saturday 28 November, 9am-6pm
at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence, Italy

On Saturday 28 November, the international conference “Interferences, Art and the Hospital” will take place at the Meyer Paediatric Hospital of Florence from 9am to 6pm.

The conference is entitled “Interferences” because art in a hospital setting stands out and stimulates both on a psychological and on a social level, of who breathes the anxiety and the fears of the environment of a paediatric hospital. The Meyer hospital of Florence bears testimony to this, having art integrated into the new hospital complex of Villa Ognissanti. Works that colour the areas and break up spaces and fill in time, in the wards, clinic waiting rooms, corridors, infiltrating into the garden, the stairwells, filling the voids of the large skylights, offering itself as a stimulus in the relationships between the workers, the young patients and their families. The experience of the Florentine hospital is not intended to be art therapy or a Disney scenario, but rather an art that “stimulates reactions and relations between those who share it.”

Amongst the speakers at this international conference, organized by the Regione Toscana (Department of Culture, Department for the Right to Health) and the Meyer Foundation, are the semiologist Omar Calabrese and Peter Scher, from the Arts of Health from the Faculty of Health Art and Design at the University of Manchester. The most important international experiences will be presented, such as a project for the Hospital of Marseilles by Michelangelo Pistoletto, creator of Cittadellarte, who will be present with a contribution. The conference, which will begin with opening remarks by Tommaso Langiano, President of the Meyer Foundation, aims to build a path so that the “Art at the Meyer laboratory” and what has been achieved elsewhere, can be replicated in other hospitals. Art at the Meyer is not mere decoration but is an interaction with the children, even in the many laboratories active in the Toy Library.

In particular, to outline the planning capacity with the declared intention of making it possible in other hospital contexts, the conference Interferences, will be divided in two: in the morning the theme will reflect what has been achieved to date. There will be a whole session dedicated to artistic experiences already activated reflecting both national and European realities, according to a holistic view of the Hospital, which in turn should reflect a multiplicity of visions and perceptions, to contain and to recall from elements of everyday life to the fantastic and to the imaginary. Paolo Cocchi Councillor of Culture for the Regione Toscana (Tuscan Region) will speak in the morning.

In the afternoon, importance will be given to “The practice of doing”, to define the possible strategies for development and for consolidation. A round table is planned, to analyse the tools and levers used to activate other art experiences in the hospital setting; in occasion of the project proposed by the Regione Toscana for the construction of four new hospitals, where humanization and environmental aspects will run parallel to the design of the hospitals.

At the end of the conference at 6pm, ten panels inspired by the first book of Pinocchio by Fabio De Poli and made by the children’s crèche, Noé in Florence, will be presented.

How to participate.
Registration is necessary and should be completed via the web at www.meyer.it/interferenze

There will be a coffee break at the opening (9am) and closing (6pm) of the conference, offered by the Meyer Foundation

The experience of the Meyer Hospital.
The Paediatric Hospital of Florence, within the context of Meyer Art, a project desired and supported by the Meyer Foundation, houses works of art by artists such as Esther Albardanè, Altan, Dario Bartolini, Carlo Cantini, Sara Carlini, Fabio De Poli, Francesco Fagnani, Gianni Fanello, Sophie Fatus, Paolo Favi, Simone Frasca, Paolo Guidotti, Janet Mullarney, Daniele Nannini, Giovanni Pecchioli, Peppe Perone, Andrea Rauch (Artistic Director), Guido Scarabattolo and Sergio Traquandi.

Interferences: Art and the Hospital, 28 November 2009, from 9am -6pm,
Main Hall of the Meyer Hospital, Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence www.fondazione.meyer.it
www.regione.toscana.it

Press Office: Roberta Rezoalli, Meyer Paediatric Hospital Meyer Foundation, Viale Pieraccini 24, 50139 - Florence (Italy) tel. + 39 055 566 2302 mob. + 39 335 6860 677 www.meyer.it

PR and communication: Studio Abba, info@studioabba.com tel. +39 055292082 www.meyerart.info

The Salon des Artistes Indépendants to host OpenArtCode artists at the Grand Palais
With the support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Visual Arts Delegation

27 international artists will exhibit their artwork from 3-9 November 2009 at the Grand Palais in Paris, in the event Art en Capital, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, which was founded in 1884 by artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Toulouse Lautrec, Pissarro.

OpenArtCode is made up of a group of talented artists who have very different technical styles and a varied artistic formation. They have united their talents in the past to exhibit together in Italy, Monte-Carlo, Mexico and last year at the Grand Palais under the umbrella of Passion for Life. To coincide with the exhibition in Paris this year, some OpenArtCode artists will also be exhibiting at GemlucART in Monaco (Auditorium Ranieri III, 22 October - 6 November ).

The strong relationship of this group of artists has been consolidated in the various international exhibitions in which they have participated together, making it possible to continue to organize this exhibition and other prestigious events in the future. The common goal of exhibiting their art in important locations, often with a charitable incentive, has cemented them all as a group and the difference of language, culture and above all of expressive technique only go to highlight the quality of each of these artists in the group context.

The OpenArtCodeParis catalogue will be available, not only of course at the Grand Palais, but also at major museum and international exhibition bookshops, such as the Uffizi Gallery in Florence or the Biennale Gardens bookshop in Venice. On Thursday 5 November at 7pm the OpenArtCode catalogue will be presented at the gallery, Le Scribe L’Harmattan, Place Maubert rue Frederic Sauton 19 in Paris. It will also be possible to order the catalogue through the website www.openartcodeparis.com

The artists participating in OpenArtCodeParis are: Barbara Alcalde, Marely Becerra, Figen Begen, Leon Bosboom, Mary Brilli, Brenda Charles, Emilie Cummings, Marybel Gallegos, Shirley Garcia Cipullo, Enrique Garcia Saucedo, Marina Gavazzi, Juan Carlos Granados, Guti, Sumio Inoue, Betty Jonker, Margaret Karapetian, Margaret LaBounty, Roy Lawaetz, Sina Lee, Arianna Luporini, Lina Moretti Nesticò, Catalina Ochoa, Marieta Reijerkerk, Naomi Sheed, Carlo Vitali, Karel Vreeburg, Amanda Ward Thomas.

Gran Palais des Champs Elysées - Winston Churchill Avenue - 75008 Paris

Opening: Tuesday, November 3 from 17h to 22h30
Hours: 4 and November 5 from 11am to 22:00
6 - 7 - 8 November from 11am to 19:30
November 9 from 11am to 18h (Ticket office closes at 16:00)

Metro: Line 1, 9 and 13 - station: Champs Elysées Clemenceau or Franklin Roosevelt

Bus: lines 28, 32, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93

For further information: info@openartcode.com
www.openartcodeparis.com

Hotel Traiano is happy to remind you a great artistic event: Rome International Film Festival IV edition. This fourth edition of the International Rome Film Festival is put on by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma and promoted by the Fondazione Musica per Roma, the Municipality of Rome, the Rome Chamber of Commerce, the Province of Rome and the Lazio Region.

The Festival is divided into four sections: Official selection, The Other Cinema - Extra, Alice in the City and Focus.

Official Selection will feature 12 films in competition and 6 shown out of competition.
All the films in competition will compete for the Marco Aurelio Prize; an international jury composed by seven famous art and cinema stars will award the Gold Marco Aurelio Award for the best film and the Silver Marco Aurelio Award for the best actor/actress.

The Other Cinema - Extra presents the most innovative and original films. Lovers, journalists and critics coming from all the world will have the possibility to meet the world cinema stars.
Meryl Steep and Paulo Coelho will be present.

Alice in the City basically aims at younger cinemagoers; deepening opportunities, meetings and cinema’s exploitation.

The Focus aims instead on global environmental initiatives involving the various characters not only entertainment but also environmentalists, contractors, architects and foundations.

Rome International Film Festival 2009 will be held at the Rome Auditorium Music Park (15th-29th October 2009).

Florentine fashion jewellery brand, leader in the gold and steel jewellery market and original creator of the Composable Link Bracelet - aka the Italian Charms bracelet, launches its own blog.

The original creator of the Italian Charm Bracelet - the iconic Composable bracelet, is now inviting you to take the role of protagonist online.. not only can you keep up to date with all the latest Nomination news and collection launches but this is also an opportunity for you to ask technical questions, share your comments and opionions and yes even suggest designs for the new additions to the Composable collection.

Why not share the secrets or your Composable bracelet by explaining the special messages behind your choice of links? The blog is a virtual space that allows you to reveal something about yourself and your style, interact with other “Nomination addicts” or participate in the online activities and competitions that Nomination is planning for later this year that will be hosted via the Blog. The Nomination blog is live in two languages - English and Italian - the company’s mother tongue.

Nomination, worldwide leader in the steel and gold jewellery market, developed the Nomination blog following the success of other online initiatives - the Nomination Facebook group and links to YouTube, where it is possible to view the brand videos and adverts produced since the company was established in 1987.

Hotel Traiano is happy to remind to all visitors and art’s lovers The mind of Leonardo, an exhibition started from the 1st of May 2009 until the end of August. It represents a route finalized to lead the visitor to discover Leonardo’s Genius by means of rational processes ruling Physics and thinking.

The event is composed by videos and high definition reproductions, operating models, digital postings with interactive contents and virtual images of lost works of art.

Very interesting is the marvellous design and operating model of a theatre with its stage and mobile scenes, the project of a flying machine and two painting representing the classic myth of Leda and the Swan, considered the masterpieces of living beings.

The Mind of Leonardo is to be held at Venice Palace until the 30th of August 2009. 
Entrance: every day, except Monday from 10.00 Am to 7.00 pm.

This year the event called “The Long Night of Museums”, set up on 2005, arrives to his 4^th edition and confirms its cultural values all around Europe.

The adherence of Scotland and Northern Ireland increased the number of nations that are involved in the event and that on 16^th May will open its museums for free and until late night allowing people to freely admire its attractions. This will happen in many European cities. Rome with its wonderful museums (last year the biggest part of them gave their adhesion to the event) and works of art will act as trailblazer of this important festival., and there will also be several shows and cultural event during the all day.

For tourists arriving from outside Rome Hotel Traiano, located in the heart of the Eternal City, even though not far from Termini Station, offers special rates on its official website.

Giotto and the fourteenth century, The Painting Divine Master: more than 150 works of art into the huge Victorian rooms for an unrepeatable event!

Trajan Hotel is happy to remind you the event Giotto and the fourteenth century, The Painting Divine Master, an exhibition that will take place in Rome at Victorian Complex (Venice Square).

Rome dedicates an unrepeatable event to the symbol of Middle Age, Giotto from Bondone, best known as Giotto. More than 150 masterpieces, all of extraordinary quality and level, coming from  every part of the world: jewellery, wood sculptures and miniated codes. One of the main attractions will be the rare and marvellous paintings of the fourteenth century totally restored for the event.

The exhibition is promoted by the Ministry for Cultural Goods and Activities with the special participation of Enit – Tourism National Agency – and in collaboration with the Papal Culture Council, Papal Commission for Church and Cultural Goods and Italian Episcopal conference.

Giotto and the fourteenth century, The Painting Divine Master will start the 5^th of March 2009 and it will remain until the 28^th June 2009.

Hotel Traiano is happy to remind you a very important event that will take place at Corso Museum from the half of March where will be exposed more than 200 works of  art.Then he was imitated from several artists of the XIX century such as Vincent Van Gogh. 

Coming from the Honolulu Academy of Arts Utagawa Hiroshige’s works will be exposed at Corso Museum from the 17th of March 2009 and then from the 1st of July to the 10th of September at the Dulwich Picture Gallery of London.

The famous painter had a lot of clout with European paintings, impressionism and post impressionism. His huge artistic production counts different kinds of art as for example polychromatic printings of actors, warriors, courtesans and printings concerning flowers, birds and fish, and from the thirties printings of landscapes where he introduced a new and original stile that caused him an incredible success. 

 From: http://www.hoteltraiano.it/uk/news/27.3.2009_29.html