Splinters of Arte Povera (An Italian Avant-Garde) An Exhibit in Collaboration with Esso Gallery Curated by Filippo Fossati with the help of David Flinn On view April 15 through May 12, 2008 Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm LIGHTROOM Exhibit by Roberto De Paolis Curated by Raffaella Guidobono February 28 - March 27, 2008 On view Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm TOP INSIDE Digital Painting by Pamela Cento January 25 - February 20, 2008 On view Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm TOP A PRINCE NAMED TOTO' An exhibit Displaying more than 50 documents including original film posters, manuscripts and personal photographs coming directly from the De Curtis Family Archive. These works reveal the entire creative spectrum of a genius named Antonio De Curtis a.k.a. Totò: Screen Actor, Stage Actor, Composer, and Poet, not to mention Totò the man. Curated by Diana De Curtis (Totò's granddaughter) and Laura Caparrotti The exhibit will be on view October 29 - December 20, 2007 Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm TOP UNO BRAVO Recent Italian Immigrations An exhibit of photographs and texts by Paola Ferrario The exhibit will be on view September 14 - October 15, 2007 Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm TOP Valori Migranti An exhibit of paintings by Antonio Natale Curated by Guido Pensato and co-sponsored by Regione Puglia, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Fondazione Banca del Monte, ArtInFabrica, Claudio Grenzi Editore, Spazio 55 The exhibit will be on view June 6 - June 22 Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm TOP MIRKO: Between Archetype and Mythology 1937-1968 An Exhibit of the works of Mirko Basaldella (Mirco) Curated by Renato Miracco and Sponsored by Maurice Kanbar Mirco has shown in his artistic trajectory, research that made movements both on the thematic and formal front. In his bronze sculptures, one notes the equilibrium between expressionism and classical suggestion, as well as renaissance works from Donatello to Michelangelo, that seemingly flow into his peculiar reflections on post-cubism and "neo-metaphysical." Inspired by the classics, Mirko's fascinating sculptures are plastically figurative; his sculptures express the impulses of Jung's "unconscious primordial being" that blend with our collective imagination. He endeavors not to create new myths, but transfer onto these symbols, the anxiety of modern society. The Exhibit will be on view April 26-May31 Monday through Friday 10am - 5pm (Except Friday, May 18) TOP PUCCINIANA Half-Serious Ecstasy and Transfigurations An Exhibit of Paintings by Giulio Bellutti March 22 through April 20 On view Monday through Friday 10am-5pm TOP ROMA Photographic Exhibit Photographs by Emanuela Gardner Curated by Isabella del Frate-Rayburn February 20 through March 16 On view Monday through Friday 10am-5pm TOP A Museum Called Italy Photographs of Most Beautiful Properties Restaured by FAI (Fondo per l'ambiente Italiano) On exhibit February 1 through 15 TOP Lucio Fontana: Alle Radici Dello Spazialismo Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, Ceramics On exhibit November 6th through December 17th TOP Vulcano in New York paintings and sculptures by Lello Esposito Opening Friday October 27th at 7:30pm On exhibit October 27th through November 2nd TOP Aqueducts of Rome a photographic exhibit by Roberta Vassallo Opening Monday 18th at 6pm On exhibit September 18th through October 20th. TOP Visions of Science photographs by Felice Frankel On Display January 18th to Febrauary 17th, 2006 Felice Frankel, is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this exhibit she displays with creativity and imagination some 30 extraordinary images of research in material science, nanoscience, biomaterials, and chemistry. Frankel's lens yields astonishing interpretations of the world of scientific research and highlights the extraordinary beauty of hidden details in the laboratory, creating images which capture the essence of science. What emerges is a truly original connection between science and imagination. In this exhibition, the Bracco Group, a world leader in global solutions for medical diagnostics and actively engaged in promoting culture, the arts and scientific research, saw an immediate affinity to its own business: showing through diagnostic investigation what the naked eye cannot see, with the aim of studying increasingly cutting-edge technologies that reveal "the life from within." Felice Frankel's photographic exhibition offers therefore opportunity for the convergence and integration of science, culture, and the world about us. For more information about Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. visit www.bracco.com Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm. Click to download Felice Frankel's audio guide podcast from Science & the City. TOP Now Playing... Film Posters from the Lawrence Auriana Collection On Display December 1 through December 22, 2005 The Lawrence Auriana Collection presents Italian, film posters from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s designed by such notable Italian graphic designers as Ercole Brini and Enrico de’Seta For much of the 20th Century, Italy produced some of the world’s finest film posters. Known for their brilliant colors, passionate depictions, and grandeur, Italian film posters were among the most innovative of their time. Frequently designed for films of foreign origin, these posters reveal both a global popular culture and an Italian vision. Folded and unfolded constantly as they were moved from theatre to theatre, these fascinating posters were not designed to survive. Under such circumstances, it is miraculous that they have remained intact. Several posters are in unique formats, such as an extremely long and narrow poster for the film Umberto D, and one in a wide, horizontal format for the film La Strada, possibly displayed in a theatre lobby during the film’s premier. The exhibition is supported by grants from the Columbus Citizens Foundation and the Gaetano Filangieri Philosophical Society of America. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm. TOP Paintings by Tania Pistonep On Display September 28 through November 2, 2005 Tania Pistone is a neo-abstract painter who's simple, elegant and harmonious canvases painted in vivid colors hide a structure of precise writings. Tania covers her square, rectangular and oval canvases with literary passages or long phrases taken from her journals, alternating citations from the likes of Rilke and Freud with exclamations form Mickey Mouse or news bites. Tania then paints upon this literary base, so that the presence of these words becomes the real structure of the paintings, creating a sort of grid on which the color rests, finding in this a subconscious esthetic and poetic resonance. Tania Pistone was born in Sicily in 1969. She lives and works in Turin and New York. Her work has been exhibited at one-woman shows at the Galleria Art and Arts in Turin in 2003, at the Galleria Cardi in Milan in 2004, and the Centro d'Arte Allori in Reggello (Florence) in 2004. The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through November 2, 2005. TOP Colors & Colors The Visible City photographs by Giuliana Mariniello Viridaria photographs by Stefano Fontebasso De Martino An Exhibit Curated by Giovanna Pennacchi On Display September 7 through September 26, 2005 The Visible City - photographs by Giuliana Mariniello. Inspired by the imaginary cities of Italo Calvino, La città visibile, is a long research on the recent mutations of urban landscapes in Rome. Through a vision, often ironic or surreal, advertisements that appear on busses and trams, posters and billboards, Giuliana Mariniello shows the unusual and surprising relationship between the real city and ephemeral advertising. In the pleasing chromatics her photographs show the reversal of the utopia of the real city into a highly visible, spectacular and illusionary city. Viridaria - Photographs by Stefano Fontebasso De Martino. In ancient Rome "viridario" was the name given to the garden located in the center of patrician houses. Stefano Fentebasso De Martino's exhibit is a garden; he collects images of flowers and plants, petals and leaves. This little and fragrant exhibit gives the eye the pleasure of chlorophyll, the beauty of the flowers is solemn and enduring because it has to do with the world of ideas as well as that of plants. In his work the alchemy of colors is brought to life through digital elaborations that give back to the paper luminous figures, matter, and chromatic provocations. The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through September 26, 2005. TOP Parma, the City of Opera The city and its musical history through photographs, posters and documents from the archives of the Teatro Regio On Display April 15th through May 13th, 2005 Casa della Musica is an initiative of the City of Parma dedicated to the study, research and proliferation of musical culture. Some of the most important musical institutions of the city are headquartered in Casa della Musica: the Historical Archive of the Teatro Regio, the Deaprtment of Musicology at the Università degli Studi, and the International Center for Research on Musical Periodicals (CIRPeM). The Historical Archive of the Teatro Regio, in particular, holds one of the greatest and most complete collections on Italian theater. Founded in 1816 by Duchess Maria Luigia of Austria, it holds not just documents that testify to the activities of the Teatro Ducale and the Teatro Regio, but also donations, legacies and holdings that over time have further increased the great value of this collection. The conserved documents are mostly playbills and programs, libretti and musical scores, portraits of performers and composers, autographed letters, sketches of sets and costumes, administrative documents and audio and video recordings. The exhibition at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò provides an accurate sample of the most significant pieces in the collection. TOP ABROAD! Impressions of Italy the first annual exhibit of student photographs curated by Julia Griner and Letizia La Rosa On Display March 9th through April 8th, 2005 Photographs by: F. Benenson, F. Chia, C. Campanelli, S. Danner, A. Fekete, C. Gurkin, M. Irilli, M. Koehler, F. Magnani, G. Montie, L. Shanley, D. Suo, C. Reyes, F. Tripoli, and A. Weinberg. This exhibit is made possible by Piola and Duggal Visual Solutions. The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through April 8, 2005. TOP Carla Accardi Guaches An Exhibit Curated by Gian Enzo Sperone and Isabella del Frate Rayburn On Display January 11 through February 15, 2005 Recognized for her graphic style and treatment of the canvas as an object, Accardi was an integral part of the foray into abstraction in Italian painting in the late 1940s. In 1947, she, along with future husband Antonion Sanfilippo and artists Giulio Turcato, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, among others, founded the group Forma I (Form), declaring themselves "formalists and Marxists" and announcing their intention to create art that emphasized "utility, harmonious beauty, [and] nonheaviness." She continues to create new and exciting work that incorporates materials such as transparent plastic ("sicofoil"), adding unique sculptural elements to the canvases filled with the flatly rendered colored signs that have characterized her work since the 1950s. This exhibit will feature 16 gouaches executed in 1962 and 2004. A complimentary exhibition of paintings executed from 1955 to 2004 will open on January 8th at Sperone Westwater 415 West 13th Street in New York. TOP Fotografie di Viaggio photographs by Olimpia Ferrari Il Mondo di Giochi paintings by Gioconda Ferrari di Collesape An Exhibit Curated by Isabella del Frate Rayburn On Display November 6 through December 16, 2004 Olimpia Ferrari studies Political Science and lives in Rome. Gioconda Ferrari di Collesape follows painting courses in Switzerland and Salsbury, England. She lives and works in Rome. The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through Decmeber 16, 2004. TOP Paolo Maione An Exhibit Curated by Gian Enzo Sperone and Isabella del Frate Rayburn On Display March 11 through April 12, 2004 Opening Reception Thursday, March 11, 2004 from 6 to 8pm This exhibit and its catalogue were made possible thanks to generous gifts from Maurice Kanbar and Gian Enzo Sperone. The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through April 12, 2004. TOP "Ogni sette anni/Every Seven Years" - Photographs by Francesca Magnani and "Oxymora: Portraits of Naples" - Photographs by Mario Spada Dual Photography Show February 19 to March 8, 2004 Opening Reception Thursday, February 19th, 2004 from 6 to 8pm Featuring regional products sponsored by Esperya: The Premier Italian Food Shop and Vino: The Premier Italian Wine Shop. The show is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through March 8, 2004. For more information, the public may call (212) 998-8739. The exhibits are sponsored by: I.J. Peiser's and Sons, Lavazza and Azienda Vinicola LaGuardiense and are presented in collaboration with Regione Campania. Francesca Magnani, an Italian photographer based in New York, has been teaching Italian language and literature for seven years at NYU, The New School, and CUNY. Her educational background is in Latin, Philology and Anthropology, but in New York she started to express herself with photography. Her photos and stories have been published by D di Repubblica, TimeOut New York, Marie Claire, Diario and in the books Here is New York (Scalo Publishers, 2002) and Morning Wood (Gingko Press, 2003). She has exhibited her work in the shows "Duplicittà" (New York, Casa Italiana 2002), and "New York. Prospettive" (Padova, 2003). Ogni sette anni is a story made of words and images about a ritual that takes place in the small town of Guardia Sanframondi in which every 7 years the entire population of the village honors the Madonna Assunta with a parade of flagellants and self-beaters, in a sort of collective mea culpa, a sacred representation that involves every single citizen. Mario Spada is a photojournalist from Naples. He started out as a wedding photographer's assistant when he was 15, and later he attended the Bauer photography school in Milan. Since November 2001 he has been a member of the photo agency Contrasto. He won the Canon Prize for Young Photographers in September 2002. His photos have appeared in various magazines: Max, D di Repubblica, Panorama, Airone, Newsweek, Io Donna, Il Sole 24Ore, and in the book Italia. Settant'anni di fotografia (Contrasto, 2003). The show is a collection of his work about the passions, tragedies, and everyday lives of youngsters in some of the most picturesque and degraded areas of Naples. The title Oxymora refers to the enormous contrasts that coexist in this metropolis of the south. For interviews or further questions for the photographers, please contact magnanina@yahoo.com. Faces of Love A Photographic Exhibit by Shana Dressler and Helen Giovanello Presented in collaboration with The Italian Cultural Institute of New York and Denis Curti. On Display January 22 to February 13, 2004 Opening Reception Thursday, January 22, 2004 from 6:30 to 8:30pm The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through February 13, 2004. Faces of Love is a joint exhibition that combines black-and-white photographs from two books in progress: If Only It Were Love by American photographer, Shana Dressler and I Love You by Italian photographer Helen Giovanello. If Only It Were Love, by Shana Dressler, was born out of her need to process the complex feelings that resulted from an unrequited love affair with an Italian underwater photographer during the early 1990s. In 1999, she returned to Rome to create images of her story as she wished it had unfolded. Her wistful depictions of couple-hood dissolve into visions of solitary self-sufficiency. Together, the two projects create a poignant and delicate counterpoint of fantasy and reality; love and not-quite-love; losing and finding; death and rebirth. Ms. Giovanello's book, I Love You, narrates the relationship between Helen and her African-American fiancée, Rama, who died of cancer in 2001. Her work is stark and frank in its portrayal of love amidst the daily march of loss. Shana Dressler's career as a photographer has spanned a wide range of forms from stills to video to multimedia. From 1998 to 2000 she worked on a project entitled, "The Spirit That Runs Through the Holy Tabernacle Church" about spiritual experience in a Pentecostal church in Harlem. In 2000, she directed and co-produced Can't Wait 'Til Sunday, a ten minute documentary which profiled of the church's pastor, Carl Graham. It was filmed on the last night of Pastor Graham's 30-year career as a mechanic for the United States Postal Service. Shana's other photographic projects include photographing Orisha dancers in Havana, Cuba and Bahia, Brazil; the Ganesh Festival in Bombay, India; and the annual tribal costume competition in Papua New Guinea. Helen Giovanello, an Italian photographer based in New York, has distinguished herself with her strong bodies of work as a photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has exhibited work from several projects including: "Kurdish Refugees", "Chris and Wayne" which told the story of a homeless couple and was selected for the Biennial of Photography in Turin in 1999; and "Boxers in Ghana" a body of work produced while documenting the life in Ussher Town, Ghana. Helen works regularly as a photographer and journalist for the Italian magazines Anna, Donna Moderna, Max, Donna di Repubblica, Elle, L'Espresso and other European publications. She has also collaborated with humanitarian organizations such as Doctors of the World. For interviews or further questions for the photographers, please contact them directly at: Shana Dressler (shana@shanadressler.com) and Helen Giovanello (helengiovanello@yahoo.com). TOP Monday, October 20, 2003 from 6:00 to 8:00pm Parma&Parma The City and its Traditions through the Eyes of Two Celebrated Photographers A Photographic Exhibit by Sebastião Salgado and Bob Sacha On Display October 16 to November 18, 2003 Opening Reception Monday, October 20, 2003 from 6:00 to 8:00pm The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through November 18, 2003. As a vital heart of Emilia-Romagna and of northern Italy, Parma is an historic city noted for its architectural treasures, its Opera and musical traditions, its culinary specialties and its commercial activites. This show presents the city of today through the different yet complementary eyes of two great photographers. Brazilian Sebastião Salgado is famous for his "black-and-white" reportage and for his attention to social themes and to people in their working environment. Bob Sacha - photographer for National Geographic, Fortune, and Time Magazines - focuses instead on the architectural aspects and cultural and landscape elements. TOP '2rome' "Shadow and the Light in St. Peter's" - Photographs by Marco Anelli and "Roma-City" - Photographs by Simona Filippini Dual Photography Show September 18 to October 13, 2003 Opening reception Thursday, September 18 from 6 to 8pm The show is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through April 26, 2002. For more information, the public may call (212) 998-8739. Approximately 40 black-and-white and color photographs present a double series of images that the two artists, Anelli and Filippini, have dedicated to their hometown, Rome, highlighting distinctly contrasting aspects. Marco Anelli's work, "Shadow and Light in St. Peter," was photographed in its entirety inside St. Peter's Basilica. This photographic study, pursued over two years, offers a unique vision, unlike the traditional iconography of the Basilica's interior architecture and marble sculptures. These black-and-white photographs were taken exclusively with natural light. Simona Filippini's work is entitled "Roma-City." With these images and their passionate colors, she was able to catch a number of unusual aspects through the lens, distinct from the monumental beauty for which the city is so famous. These photographs are taken with a Polaroid camera, and they offer the vision of a city in evolution, stretching towards the future, in which new train stations, new multiplex movie theaters, and new shopping centers are the gathering places for a new multi-ethnic community. TOP Wednesday, June 4, 2003 from 6:00 to 8:00pm No Small Distance A Photographic Exhibit by Rossano B. Maniscalchi June 4 to July 31, 2003 Opening Reception Wednesday June 4, 2003, from 6 to 8pm The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run through July 31, 2003. "No Small Distance" includes more than 80 portraits of important international intellectual personalities, including (among others) Michelangelo Antonioni, Umberto Eco, Dario Fo, Salman Rushdi, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal. Rossano B. Maniscalchi was born in Florence, Italy and has been working as a professional photographer of fine art since the late eighties. He has photographed exclusive publicity campaigns for fashion show rooms and worked extensively with famous brands such as Ferragamo, Armani, Cartier, Guess, and Max Mara, as well as doing covers for prestigious American and European magazines. His portraits have been exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia. The Island to Discover: Sicily through Fashion An exhibit of fashion by Gabriella Ferrera On Display, Monday March 24 through Friday, April 4, 2003 Opening Reception Monday, March 24, 2003 from 7 to 8pm The garments of the Studio Ferrera in Catania, on display for this special exhibition, will present sculpted bustiers and elegant outfits made of bronze salt gems, wooden frames, stones, lava and terracotta to highlight the island's suggestive archeological landmarks, aiming to launch a style which is quintessentially Sicilian. This exhibit was made possible thanks to the generous contributions of the Provincia Regionale di Catania, Accent Public Relations, the Dish Network, and Gate2Sicily. For more information, please call (908) 273-8466 or visit www.accentpr.com. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday, 9am to 5pm through April 4, 2003. TOP Sacred Emblems, Community Signs: Historic Flags and Religious Banners from Williamsburg, Brooklyn An Exhibit presented with The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/Queens College, CUNY On Display, February 6 through February 28, 2003 Held over through March 14, 2003. Exhibit Inauguration Thursday, February 6, 2003 6 to 7pm presentations by Joseph Sciorra (Calandra Italiana American Institute) and Paul D'Ambrosio (New York State Historical Association) 7 to 8pm - Opening Reception The exhibition features thirteen historic flags and religious banners from the Italian American community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, artistically and historically significant objects that illustrate the history of Italian American aesthetic and religious practices spanning well over a century. The embroidered pieces were originally commissioned, ceremoniously displayed, and owned by lay Catholic associations devoted to a particular saint or Madonna and organized by Italian hometown affiliation. Six sacred personages are represented in the exhibit, some with multiple banners: Our Lady of Mercy, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Our Lady of the Snow, St. Cono, St. Sabino, and St. Paulinus. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday, 9am to 5pm through February 28, 2003. TOP Enrico Caruso: 100 Years in America A series of events held in cooperation with The Enrico Caruso Museum of America An historical exhibition featuring photos, caricatures, and personal memorabilia On display January 21 to February 4, 2003 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 from 6 to 8pm Opening Reception and Screening of My Cousin (1918) a silent film starring Enrico Caruso and Caroline White Friday, January 24, 2003 at 6pm a concert featuring songs made famous by Enrico Caruso with Giuseppe Taormina-Tenor Daniela Taormina-Soprano and David Maiullo-Pianist Both events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday, 9am to 5pm through February 4, 2003. TOP Eloisa Intini An Exhibition of Nativity and Majolica from Gaeta Italy on display Friday, December 6 through Friday, December 20, 2002 Opening Reception, Friday, December 6, 2002 from 6 to 8pm. Presented in co-operation with the National Organization of Italian American Women Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and admission is free. For further information the public may call 998-8739. The crèche figures, many adorned with antique clothing and precious jewels, are in the 18th century tradition from Naples, and the "Nativity of the Magi" is only a part of an entire scene, enriched by very accurate folk sceneries and characters (such as the innkeeper, the old lady, the beggar, the shepherd, and the butcher) and all brought to new life. All the details are carefully planned. Wax is used for the fruit, vegetables, fish and meat; wood, iron and silver are used for swords and halberds, precious metals of gold and silver, and semi-precious stones are employed throughout to make the scenery absolutely realistic and tantalizing to the eye. The artist, Eloisa Intini, resides in Gaeta, Italy, and has long dedicated herself professionally to art majolica. She recently had a major solo exhibit at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, and has also exhibited in Florence and Milan. The majolica production is completely handmade with clay on a wheel or using very old techniques that date back hundreds of years. Every piece is unique; costumes may include antique fabrics, and semi-precious jewels. The head and limbs are made entirely of hand-molded clay, and then put in the oven at 950 degrees C, painted glass eyes are used, and several coats of oil are applied skillfully and with great attention to detail. This exhibit takes place thanks to the generous support of Alitalia. Opening Reception provided by Arthur Avenue Caterers and Mionetteo Valdobbiadene Wines. td> Arte da mangiare Eat Art in New York on display Monday, November 11 through Wednesday, November 27, 2002 Opening Reception, Monday, November 11, 2002 from 6 to 8pm. The show features more than thirty sculptures by Italian artists made from and inspired by the Pasta Strainer. Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and admission is free. For further information the public may call 998-8739. Arte da Mangiare-Mangiare Arte is a non-profit Italian cultural association, which focuses on the aesthetic fusion between food and art. For the past six years, it has been exhibiting multi-media shows in Milan involving restaurants, galleries, and historical sites. One of the important aspects of this association is to exhibit in public and private spaces, providing audiences with an alternative view to the conventions of food and art display. Each year Arte da Mangiare-Mangiare Arte chooses a specific exhibition theme and location. Last year, for the debut in NYC, the restaurant Le Cirque and the Italian Cultural Institute hosted the events. td> td> "Italian Dream" by Eugenio Carmi Wednesday, September 18 through Tuesday, October 8, 2002 Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 The exhibit is presented under the auspices of the Consul General of Italy in New York. Special thanks to: Adarte Gallery , Padenghe, Italy iGuzzini, Recanati , Italy Jolly Hotel, Madison Towers , New York, NY Signum, Edizioni d'Arte , Milan, Italy Vetroarredo , Florence, Italy The show will consist of approximately 30 paintings that have been completed in the last few years, and will include several works on paper relating to the memory of the tragedy of September 11. A self described "image-maker", Eugenio Carmi was born in Genoa in 1920 and trained in Turin. His long experience as a graphic artist was of fundamental influence for his artistic activity, which is based on a rigorous geometrical structure and a careful analysis of color values. Mr. Carmi has exhibited all over Europe and North America and is well-known for his illustrations completed for several books of Umberto Eco. He currently lives and works in Milan. CITTÁ DI GHISA, CAST-IRON CITIES Thursday, June 6 thru Monday, June 21, 2002 presented with The City of Follonica and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of New York An exhibit of cast-iron artifacts and wood moldings from the Museum of Iron and Cast-Iron in Follonica. Inauguration and Opening Reception Thursday, June 6, 2002 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimó 24 West 12th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) 6pm Roundtable Presentation with: Tiziano Arrigoni (Expert in History of Iron Metallurgy) Margot Gayle (President of the Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture) Carrol Gayle (Professor of History, Lake Forest College) Claudio Saragosa (Professor of Architecture, Universitˆ di Firenze) 7-8pm Opening Reception (Gallery Space) Screening of 3D documentary on Follonica (Auditorium) SoHo and lower Manhattan boast one of the highest concentrations of cast-iron buildings in the world. Follonica, in the province of Grosseto, on the Tuscan shore, is itself, a city of cast-iron, and finds in this part of New York the opportunity to open a dialogue based on a common history rooted in cast-iron. This show has been possible thanks to the support of: Regione Toscana Provincia di Grosseto Monte dei Paschi di Siena C.A.S.A.P. Unipol Assicurazione Consorzio Etruria s.c.rl. Follonica Corse Cavalli S..A. Rotary Club Follonica The show is free and open to the public, Monday thru Friday, 9am to 5pm and will run until June 21, 2002. Gaetano Pompa, New York 2002 on display May 3 through May 31, 2002 Opening Reception, Friday, May 3 from 6 to 8pm. The show features a wide-ranging selection of Pompa's oils, watercolors, drawings, graphic works, ceramics and bronzes. Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and admission is free. For further information the public may call 998-8739. Gaetano Pompa was one of Italy's most original and free-thinking artists. He exhibited in the Vatican, Seoul, San Paolo and Glasgow, New York and Frankfurt among others, His mastery of painting, sculpture and graphics conquered critics around the globe and his soaring spirit bewitched art lovers. His greatest inspirations were the antiquity, cornerstone events of modernity (the first men on the Moon, the Pope's first visit to a synagogue), animal kingdom and music. His thought and works fused his Roman heritage, German experience and the love for his native Italy into haunting images in every medium. Gaetano Pompa passed away in 1998. As one of Pompa's most precious possessions was a complete collection of Igor Stravinsky's music, which served as the inspiration for an entire series of his most exquisite graphic works there will be a concert in conjunction with the exhibit, featuring a program of some of Stravinsky's more Italian flavored works. The concert will take place at Casa Italiana on Thursday, May 23 at 6pm and will include the Italian Suite for cello and piano, and Serenade in A for piano. It will be performed by virtuoso cellist Boris Strulev and pianist and composer Sergei Dreznin. This exhibit and concert have been made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Kanbar Charitable Trust of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. To receive a complimentary copy of the exhibit catalogue, please call or email Frank Calabrese at the above contacts. 'Eyes on the City' April 2 to April 26, 2002 'Eyes on the City' discloses a dreamed series of buildings, where each one contains a human soul: a balcony has pupils, a tower reveals delicate breasts, two church bells resonate in a woman’s forehead. These series of black and white photographs by Silvia Fubini expresses a union between architecture and human flesh, and people and environment. Silvia Fubini is an Italian photographer specializing in portraits. She has worked for leading Italian magazines as a photographer and writer and has had two prior exhibitions in her hometown of Torino. She currently lives in New York, dividing her time between photography and teaching Italian. In Duplicittà, images of Italy are juxtaposed with shots of New York City as a way to recreate the double perception that accompanies people who live far from their motherland. New York and Padua constitute the primary poles of opposition, but this idea of doubleness then broadens: NY and Italy, NY and Europe, and in the last pair of pictures, NY before and after. Francesca Magnani has been living between New York and Italy for the past five years. She is pursuing her PhD in Italian Studies at NYU, and teaches Italian at NYU and The New School, where she discovered a passion for photography and printing. 'MANTUA & THE KABBALAH' an historic exhbit ON DISPLAY MARCH 4 TO MARCH 29 Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, and admission is free Held in cooperation with the Center for Jewish History and the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU 'MANTUA & THE KABBALAH' is an exhibition highlighting the historic importance of the Jewish community in Mantua, Italy, and focusing on Mantua as a center for the study of the Kabbalah from the Renaissance forward. While the main body of the exhibition is on display at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, an annex exhibit will be on view at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street. During the Renaissance and the early modern age Mantua was a major center for the study of the Kabbalah, that esoteric tradition which fostered a profound renewal in Jewish spiritual life. A remarkably large collection of Hebrew-language books is still preserved in the city, and the library of the Jewish Community of Mantua, now in the Municipal Library, contains the greatest selection of kabbalistic texts, both manuscripts and printed books, available in Italy. This exhibition highlights the importance of Mantua for the diffusion of the Kabbalah and brings to light the innovative features of the city's kabbalistic school. GENTE DI TOSCANA January 22 through January 31, 2002 in collaboration with Regione Toscana Consulta Regionale dei Toscani allâEstero and Associazione Toscana di New York Monday thru Friday - 9am to 5pm MEMORIES FROM THE ITALIAN LITERARY NOVECENT0 November 30 to December 21, 2001 a photographic documentary exhibit on the occasion of the Awarding of the Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction in collaboration with The Comune di Roma and the Casa delle Letterature Monday thru Friday - 9am to 5pm