Beppe Severgnini in San Francisco
Italians and Americans: How We See Each Other Americans and Italians often look at each other through the lenses of stereotypes and clichés, and so do Italians and Italian-Americans. New York Times and Corriere della Sera op-ed columnist Beppe Severgnini, former correspondent of the Economist and author of La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to […]
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Iconoclasm
Artwork by Arnix and Max Papeschi The McLoughlin Gallery is pleased to present Iconoclasm, a two-person exhibition of works by Arnix and Max Papeschi. Works On view May 1– 31, 2014 Jarringly beautiful, hauntingly confrontational, and politically incorrect, Iconoclasm is the debut American exhibition for both artists Arnix and Max Papeschi. Through sculpture and digital […]
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Zadig: Voltaire meets Kafka
A three-part concert of new music by Massimiliano Messieri, Nicola Baroni and Vangelis Lympouridis. Zadig: caprices for cello, hypercello and live electronics focuses on the interaction between human and computer. The music, by Messieri, is inspired by Voltaire’s philosophical novel of the same name. The first part is entirely acoustic (solo cello) and highlights the […]
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Building with Air
Dante Bini will present his book Building with Air, chronicling the invention and evolution of the remarkable ‘Binishell’ structural system, the inflated concrete dome Dante invented in 1964. Dante and his son Nic Bini will also talk about subsequent ‘air-powered’ construction methodologies, which are becoming more technically daring and aesthetically complex. The Binishells are circular-based, […]
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Pasquale Esposito
Italian tenor performs in Northern California Pasquale Esposito is an international touring and recording tenor. He was born in Naples, immigrated to the United States in 1988, and studied vocal performance, specialising in opera, at the San José State University School of Music under the direction of Professor Joseph Frank. He has released six full-length […]
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57th SFIFF (San Francisco International Film Festival)
This year’s SFIFF will include a new Italian film: Il sud è niente (South is Nothing) (2013, 90’). Directed by Fabio Mollo. Cast: Miriam Karlkvist, Vinicio Marchioni, Valentina Lodovini. Synopsis: Miriam Karlkvist took a well-deserved Shooting Star award at Berlin for her portrayal of a seemingly androgynous teenage girl negotiating life in a mafia-controlled town […]
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Sweet Thunder Music Festival.
The San Francisco Contemporary Music players present the Sweet Thunder Music Festival: four days of modern and new music, ranging from established masters to up-and-coming composers. The festival will end with a concert at 2:00 PM on the 27th of April, which will include the 1979 piece Con Luigi Dallapiccola by Luigi Nono, an Italian […]
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CICIS Italian Studies Symposium
Precarietà/Precariousness The 2014 California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) conference presents papers that explore the topic of “precarietà/precariousness,” the feeling of moving towards or away from a sense of greater security as well as the idea of existential fluidity. These notions may include the idea of “passing through” or that of precariousness in society […]
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Guglielmo Achille Cavellini 1914-2014
Centennial Exhibition Born in Brescia, Italy in 1914, Cavellini is a historically important artist who gave context to the Italian Experimentation period and was the first artist to bridge postwar Italian art with American Pop Art. Yet his diverse body of work defies easy classification, as he quite spontaneously, eradicated art/life boundaries, recycled imagery from […]
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1914-2014: À la vie!
War letters and love poems on the centenary of the Great War A concert by the DUO ALTERNO for voice, piano, video projections and photo-sounds.The Duo Alterno is considered one of the most significant reference points in the vocal-piano repertoire ranging from the early 20th century to today. Since its debut in Vancouver in 1997 […]
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