VALENTINA MOVIE

From May 30 to September 30, 2012 Valentina on display for the first time in the capital.

Curated by Archive Crepax and Vincenzo Mollica, promoted by the Province of Rome under the Project ABC Beauty Arts and Culture organized by Civita, is the first exhibition dedicated to the Roman character of Valentina.

Founded in 1965 by Guido Crepax pen, the more complex and sensual women of the Italian comic is presented in an exhibition "anarchist" and emotional, consisting of thematic rooms that envelop the audience in an atmosphere always hovering between dream and reality.

Silhouettes of Valentina-size guide viewers along the way, telling the world Crepax and providing insights from the rich cultural heritage that features the stories of the saga. All amplified by spettacolarizzazioni environments and large drawn from the drawings, installations and animated with video contributions and valued from 120 original artworks selected from the approximately 2,600 that this author has dedicated to Valentina.

Full price: € 6.00
Reduced: € 4.00

where:
Rome, Palazzo Incontro
via dei Prefetti, 22
when:
From 30/05/2012 to 30/09/2012

10:00 to 19:00 from Tuesday to Sunday
 



The Beatles back in Rome ! - 26th may 2012

It was June 27, 1965 when the Beatles, the legendary quartet Liverpoool, held at Cinema Adriano their first and last concert in the capital, indelibly marking the fate of so many fans who followed them in their musical career.
Saturday, May 26, 2012 at Piazza Cavour there will be a music marathon to celebrate the 'Bugs' and their music which accompanied the generation of the '60s and beyond.
At 50 years since their first album - Love me do - now young and old - who lost the chance to attend this concert, which cost time 2 000 and 700 pounds - can relive those emotions to the sound ofhits like Yellow Submarine, Let It Be, Help, Ticket to ride or All you need is love.
To commemorate the historic passage of the Beatles in Rome, of which we have no decent recordings at that time because they thought the RAI does not sufficiently interesting, the marathon, organized by the President of the Town Hall XVII Antonella De Giusti and produced by Elly Travel with Mitinitaly, will begin at10.30 with a spectacular performance by the Banda Musicale of Rome Capital Police (Traffic Wardens of Banda), made up of 70 musicians arranged on the steps of Palazzaccio of Rome.
The festival, then, will be animated by the perfromance strictly '60s style of bands born of Prati in schools and the city, the average high school Dante Terenzio Mamiani proposing the exact same lineup that the Fab Four realized in 1965.

Among the groups are confirmed Alighieri Band, Alma, Bluk, Queen of Phaedrus, Electric Chairs, Helena, Hollywood Revolver, Lithops, Notes, undisciplined, Route 66, Tequila Sunrise, Triptisol.
Speakers on stage two of Beatles fans like Rick Hutton, pioneer "VJ", now conductor of Radio Città Futura and Alfredo Saitto that will explain why the "perfect song" Yesterday is.
Meal tickets for youngsters will be offered by the organizers because they rifocillino one of the historic food Via Tacito.

Urban Arena
24 May to 4 November 2012

The terrace of the museum, a place of particular importance to its being opened to the public (free access) and the osmotic relationship it has with the city and the neighborhood becomes a kind of gym where artists can compete with walls, surfaces and unused spaces.The protagonists of the first appointment and Sten and Lex Bros are among the most active Italian street artist and internationally acclaimed, that will carry two interventions specifically designed for MACRO.

Working in Rome since 2001, Sten and Lex have worked on a large external walls of the museum, using a technique devised by them, the "stencil posters." After pasting, allowed to dry and cut an array of paper stencil on the wall, the artists have painted black in the blanks, so as to draw a geometric pattern in stripes and diamonds. From this point the gradual unveiling of the work is left to external agents: will the weather and passing gradually to remove the stencil and allow the underlying design of emergence.The street artist Milan Bros spoke of an unconventional, never used before: the fountain on the terrace overlooking the auditorium of the museum. On this surface, divided by a constant flow of water, the artist has created a complex collage of colored translucent films depicting large-scale image of a hurricane taken from the satellite, called "Andrea". The vibrant colors of what at first glance look like an abstract drawing, and then prove to be an icon of power and destruction, will interact with light passing through the glass, creating a dialogue between the interior space of the museum and the terrace.Born in the eighties in the United States as an evolution of the early episodes of urban graffiti, Street Art is gained in a variety of forms, feeding on an intense relationship with the road, the size of the underground metro and the environment. The latest developments are the artists - now fully aware of their role - the center of attention of museums, recognized for the innovative power that their language has introduced viral and illegal practices in traditional art.The intervention Bros is done in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Gallery Edieuropa HERE and Studio Fabio Mauri, Association for Art Experiment of the World. Sponsor: Reflectiv Window Films.

Time:

From May 24 to November 4, Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00 to 21.00Closed MondayOpening the Gates (Via Nizza 138 and Via Reggio Emilia 54) for access to open spaces: foyer, hall, restaurant, café, terrace and area. 

 Free admission

Miró! "Poetry and light"

from 16/03/2012 to 10/06/2012

He was for many years that Rome was home to a comprehensive review of the work of Joan Mirò (1893-1983), the great Catalan artist who left an unmistakable part of the European avant-garde.The exhibition features over 80 works never reached before in our country, including 50 oils of surprising beauty and of great size, but also pottery, bronzes and watercolors.You can admire the masterpieces, the oils in the street Woman (1973) and Untitled (1978), the bronzes as a Woman (1967), including the sketches for the mural for Harkness Commons-Harvard University, all from Palma de Mallorca where the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró holds many works by the artist, granted in a totally unique for the Italian premiere.The event will be held at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome from 16 March to 10 June 2012. With the patronage of the Spanish Embassy, ​​the exhibition Miró! Poetry and light is produced and organized by Arthemisia Group, 24 HOURS Culture - Gruppo 24 ORE and DART Cloister of Bramante, in collaboration with the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró.

The curator is Maria Luisa Lax Cacho, considered internationally leading experts of the work of Miró, who wished to illustrate the final stage of production of long life, when he finally materialized in Majorca in 1956 his dream: a large space all its own, where work protected by the silence and peace that only nature could offer. During the exhibition, the studio that Miró had longed for was spectacularly rebuilt in the exhibition spaces."The meeting between fantasy and control, prudence and generosity, which perhaps can be considered a feature of the Catalan mentality may explain, at least in part, the fundamental basis of art and personality of Joan Miró." So Dorfles wrote in an essay on the artist Catalan. That 's why I think it would be beneficial to the frame of the Renaissance Chiostro del Bramante  as counterpoint to the spirit multiforme Miró and his language made up of spots, graphics, splashes, fingerprints, abrasions, stitches and nails.

Every day from 10.00 to 20.00

Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 to 21.00

(Ticket office closes one hour before)

 

TicketsFull price € 12.00

Reduced € 10.00

(Valid for groups of at least 15 people, visitors over 65, students under 26 years)

Schools € 5.00

Family € 30.00(Valid for families of at least 3 people)

 

RAINBOW MagicLand

 

MagicLand Rainbow is the name of the new park that is located in the municipality of Valmontone, a few kilometers from Rome. The park covers a total area of 600,000 square meters and its features is intended to compete with the major Italian amusement parks. The "magic" is the dominant feature of Rainbow MagicLand, a theme park dedicated to all the family where the visitor can discover the magic of fun and adventure: a dimensional shift from fairy castles, brave Vikings, magical fairies, powerful sorcerers and skilled adventurers. Rainbow MagicLand offers its visitors more than 30 attractions of various kinds and for all tastes, in part fueled by the photovoltaic panels that extend to cover 60,000 square meters of parking and produce 6.5 megawatts of clean energy. The amusement park is divided into several themed areas, some of which inspired the characters of the Rainbow Group as well-known children: Winx fairies, Monster Allergy, the adventurer Huntik and Pop Pixie. Rainbow MagicLand was created by Alfa Park, a company that also manages Miragica in Molfetta, with an investment of 300 million euros. The park is part of the integrated tourism resort of Rome - Valmontone which extends over an area of 1,500,000 square meters and includes Valmontone Fashion District Outlet and a hotel complex under construction.

more info: http://www.magicland.it/

Arts Crafts future is changing: YesYdea.

YesYdea stems from the belief that the author of jewelry, in all his creations, to investigate their identity and at the same time expressing himself.

This process leads to a continuous expansion of their limits, their tools and materials chosen.
Lovers of beauty have evolved their own taste and attention to considering the value of'"idea" and not only the precious metals that make up the object.

Evolution does not mean forgetting the past, consider the classic jewelery, know her deep now allows the fusion with contemporary, giving art and culture enhance the richness and diversity.
There is no future without a past, in the past art was called ars and before Teknè ie the ability of artisans to produce objects that do not exist in nature, to create change within the natural world.

Arts Crafts future is changing: yesydea

Pink Floyd legend in ATOM HEART MOTHER original version

Friday May 18 at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome will be an evening dedicated to Pink Floyd and their music at its most impressive and spectacular sound and visual a ride of nearly two and a half hours including the famous symphonic suite of Atom Heart Mother , 1970.

The Rome group Pink Floyd Legend resurface the Floyd repertoire with painstaking care from the perspective of the show itself, through the use of rear-projection screen circular, laser shows, costumes and dazzling special effects among which is a huge inflatable pig ready to soar into the air during the songs from the album Animals.

From a musical standpoint the crown jewel of the exhibition is undoubtedly represented the execution of the famous full suite Atom Heart Mother in 1970. The part of the choral and orchestral suite was composed and conducted by the young experimental composer Ron Geesin, who has personally provided all the original music to the Master Piero Gallo last year, making in fact that of 18 May, the first revival of the original live suite in the Capital to forty years away from the historic concert of Pink Floyd at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome in 1971.

 

When:

Friday, May 18 at 21:00

where:

Piazza Gentile da Fabriano,17 Rome

more info: http://www.teatroolimpico.it/

 

Tennis - Internazionali BNL Roma - 2012 from 12 to 20th may

HISTORY

The history of Italy’s International Championships (Internazionali d'Italia) started in 1930 but not in the present location of the Foro Italico Tennis courts. The first five editions were held in the Tennis Club Milano in Via Arimondi (Milan) thanks to the commitment and passion of Earl Alberto Bonacossa. 


In 2005 we had a memorable final, once again won by a Spanish player, Nadal who defeated the Argentinian Coria in five straight sets in an over 5-hour long match which was followed by 3.600.000 television spectators. Even more memorable was the 2006 final, which again saw Nadal winning with a tie-break in the fifth and final set against the world’s number 1 player Roger Federer, after eliminating two match points in favour of the Swiss player. These two finals are ranked number 1 and 2 in the list of longest final matches ever: 5 hours and 14 minutes in 2005, 5 hours and 6 minutes in 2006. Shorter but nonetheless as significant was Nadal’s third trophy in 2007 against Gonzalez from Chile.

In 2008 Novak Djokovic beated the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka and became the first Serbian player to win in Rome. In 2009 and again in 2010, Nadal returned to dominate the courts and the Spanish left-hander succeeded in conquering his fifth title, a record for this Tournament.

The first Italian success in the Women’s tournament belongs to Lucia Valerio. A finalist in the first ever tournament in 1930 when she was defeated by the Spaniard De Alvarez. Lucia conquered her first title in 1931 by beating the US player Andrus 26 62 60, and was again a finalist in three later editions (1932, 1934 and 1935). 

On the Men’s side, the record belongs to Drobny, Mulligan and Muster with three trophies each and on the Women’s side, Chris Evert is the undisputed champion with five titles, followed by Gabriela Sabatini and Conchita Martinez with 4 each. In 2002 Serena Williams won the tournament against the Belgian Henin, while another player from Belgium, Kim Clijsters, was crowned in 2003 following a passionate match against the French player Amelie Mauresmo. After losing three finals (2000, 2001 and 2003), the French champion conquered both the 2004 edition, defeating the American Jennifer Capriati in the Final and the 2005 edition when she won against the Swiss player Schnyder. 2006 saw the comeback of Martina Hingis - a winner in 1998 - while in 2007 the Serb Jelena Jankovic won her first Italian trophy. In 2008 Jelena Jankovic won her second straight title against the young French player Alizé Cornet. In 2009 Dinara Safina won her first title in Rome - one of the most important success in her career - beating Svetlana Kuznetsova in an all “Russian” final. 2010 saw the arrival of a Spanish newcomer, Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez who won the title against Jelena Jankovic but that same year there was also an Italian “touch” for the Foro Italico crowd when Flavia Pennetta and Gisela Dulko won the Women’s Double Title. 

more info at : internazionalibnlditalia.com