On May 7, in presence of a large audience, including the Italian General Consul Andrea Luca Lepore and the Vice Minister of Culture of the Córdoba Province Chete Cavagliatto, the exhibition Musica di Smalto and Contemporary Ceramics, has been opened in the beautiful spaces of the Museum Superior de Bellas Artes "Evita" - Music Palacio Ferreyra.
Organized in collaboration with the Emilia Romagna Region, the Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Córdoba and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the exibition has the music as topic in the Italian Majolica from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century.
Musica di Smalto that was originally composed by twenty-five ceramics masterworks has been enriched with eight major works of great contemporary masters such as Fontana, Baj, Baccarini, Bertozzi & Casoni, Melandri, Cerone.
These 25 historical items choose by the director of the International Museum of Ceramics Arts in Faenza, Jadranka Bentini, show the history of the musical instruments, their useand disuse over the centuries.
The exhibition is part of a program of cultural events that the Italian Cultural Institute of Córdoba has prepared for the Bicentennial celebrations of the independence of the Argentina under the name "Italy for the Bicentennial."
The circuitry of the exhibition is possible thanks to the important support of Emilia Romagna Region and to the synergies of the four Italian Cultural Institutes: Chile, Cordoba, Buenos Aires and Lima
Images of the inauguration and of the conference on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bologna-Italy/Regione-Emilia-Romagna/150077323746#/album.php?aid=4049&id=100000460765200
Info
http://www.iiccordoba.esteri.it/IIC_Cordoba/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=376
Below the dates of the circuitry of the exhibition
Santiago of Chile from 6/09/2009 to 28/02/2010,
Córdoba from 7/05/2010 to 13/06/2010,
Buenos Aires from 8/07/2010 to 31/08/2010
Lima from from 01/10/2010 to 3/11/2010
