October, 20 2010

Italian Cultural Institute of New York

 

The US sections of the website were opened for subscriptions during an international conference for the American press in the presence of the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Riccardo Viale and Deputy Consul General of Italy in New York, Lucia Pasqualini. 

 

Following the press conference, as in Milan, there was a performance based on the theme of the festival, performed by Michela Martello, accompanied by violist Victoria Voronyansky.  

 

 

 

 

 

February 9, 2011

22 Gramercy Park, New York

The first IMAFestival event was held in a prestigious Penthouse made available by Corcoran Real Estate, a well known US real estate agency and sponsor of IMAFestival. The event, (a silent auction) in which 20 paintings by 10 American and Italian artists were auctioned to help the cause of migration and the talent of young migrant artists was attended by about 300 people in the presence of the Consul General of Italy in New York, Francesco Maria Talo, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Riccardo Viale and Councillor of the Province of Milan for Fashion, Events and the EXPO, Silvia Garnero. 

 

During the evening Italian food and wine excellences were served, and the two Italian artists Giorgio Casu, Michella Martello gave a performance that used organic ingredients as raw materials to create a work of art related to the Italian traditions of wine, oil, saffron and coffee. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 15, 2011

EXTRABANCA, Milano

IMAFestival organized an event related to visual art in the main branch of EXTRABANCA, the first bank that caters to foreigners resident in Italy. During the evening there was an exhibition with works by Romanian Andrei Tudor Odangiu, winner of the Extrabanca Prize of IMAFestival, along with the performance of “Can I Have Another Question?” by Ciriaca+Erre. During the event a hundred people, Italians and foreigners, filled the Milan branch of the Bank, to the artists’ great satisfaction. 

 

 

 

 

The Exhibition Eat Art

 

The final events of IMAFestival were further enhanced by the exhibition of contemporary art: “EAT ART”, which ‘migrated’ together with the festival through the cities of Milan, New York and Los Angeles. 

 

10 works of painting, sculpture, and video installation have been created by nine contemporary artists already established in the national and international art arena. 

Each artist was inspired by a product of Italian excellence: Alessandro Bazan worked on a spaghetti dinner (pictured), Michela Martello on Grana Padano (pictured), Davide Nido on the famous caprese salad (pictured), Silvio Giordano on Parma ham (installation) and Moscato d’Asti (video installation), Ciriaca+Erre on chocolate (installation), Julia Krahn with the Bread of Matera (wall paper and installation), Federico Guida on Grana Padano (pictured), Michelangelo Galliani with balsamic vinegar (sculpture ) and Lucia Pescador on Grana Padano (photography).

 

The catalogue, in a limited edition product for IMAFestival by Bonelli LAB, has introductions by the Councillor for the Province of Milan for Fashion, Events and the EXPO, Silvia Garnero, Minister Giancarlo Galan, Minister Sandro Bondi, Milan’s culture minister Massimiliano Finazzer Flory and the curator of the exhibition Rossella Canevari.

 

 

 March 20, 2011

Big Event in MILANO - Teatro dal Verme

Among the hundreds of participants who uploaded online at www.imafestival.com to one of the four proposed categories Film, Music, Literature and Visual Arts, 45 finalists were selected by the IMAFestival Committee and the jury, consisting of renowned professionals in the industry. 

On 20 March 2011 at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan, the finalists had the opportunity to perform live / exhibit their works in front of an audience of more than 1,500 people. In the course of the day a conference was also organized to promote a discussion between the jury, the artists and the many spectators. 

The evening awards ceremony was presented by Paola Rota, Matteo Viviani (Le Iene, Italia 1) Ludmilla Radchenko and in the presence of the Councilor of the Province of Milan for Fashion, Events and the EXPO, Silvia Garnero. In addition to personally presenting the winners awards, Councillor Garnero announced the participation of IMAFestival in EXPO 2015, an exhibition that will gather the best works that participated in IMAFestival editions 2011-2015.  

Even Italian food excellences stared in the event: the foyer of the Teatro Dal Verme hosted throughout the day 10 corners of certified products offered by the AGIA Association, and a special corner set up by Prosciutto di Parma and the two main sponsors of IMAFestival: Grana Padano and Moscato D’Asti who also offered personalised awards to the competition. 

 

 April 25 - May 3, 2011

NEW YORK Events

Wook & Lattuada Art Gallery, La MaMa Theatre e Serafina Restaurant

In New York IMAFestival organized a series of three events dedicated to art and Italian gastronomic traditions. 

 

The festival opened April 25 with the inauguration of Mangia L’Arte - Eat Art, during which, artist Ciriaca+Erre presented her live performance “Can I Have Another Question?” to the public in New York. During the evening a buffet was served, offered by the sponsors of the event (Grana Padano, Moscato d’Asti, and Prosciutto di Parma) which joined other sponsors of Italian Food in the U.S. market (Colavita, Baci, Voga, Bindi). 

On Monday, May 2 an official dinner was held in the renowned Italian restaurant “Serafina” Upper East Side, where IMAFestival partners exhibited paintings of Ludmilla Radchenko, produced by the artist on the theme of Food and Migration. 

The grand closing event IMAFestival New York, was hosted by the famous avant-garde La MaMa Experimental Theater (Lower East Side), where during the course of the day the many spectators had the chance to see the screenings of prizewinning films and documentaries from the Milan competition and see the exhibition of the works of American contestants. The event was enhanced by a live performance from Ciriaca + Erre, a reading from the book “No Panic” by the Italian writer Rossella Canevari and a concert by the R & B singer Georgia Cee and her band. 

 

 

During the day, Italian gastronomic products were offered for tasting  

 

 May 26, 2011

LOS ANGELES - Final Event

Italian Cultural Institute of LA

At Los Angeles IMAFestival was hosted by the Italian Institute of Culture for the grand closing event IMAFestival Los Angeles, Thursday, May 26, which was attended by hundreds of people. 

As in New York, during the Los Angeles event there were screenings of films and documentaries that had won the competition in Milan, a free concert by singer Georgia Cee and readings from the book “No Panic” by Rossella Canevari.  

 

The event also inaugurated the exhibition Mangia L’arte - Eat Art, open to the public May 26 to 31 in the gallery of the Institute, accompanied by a live performance by the artist Ciriaca+Erre named ‘Remind Me to Remember’. 

 

The evening was enlivened with a buffet prepared by the historical Italian restaurant Valentino of Santa Monica, who lent his Chef Nico Chessa to cook for the audience in the beautiful kitchen of the Institute. The chef used exclusively Sardinian Italian ingredients offered by our sponsor Grana Padano. 

 

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