INAUGURATION DAY - PHOTOS BY ELISABETTA BERNARDINI

FLANGINI & MINNELLI IL CINEMA DIPINTO OPERE ISPIRATE AL FILM "BRAMA DI VIVERE" INAUGURAZIONE IL 15 MARZO 2012 PRESSO L'AUDITORIUM DELL'AMBASCIATA D'ITALIA A WASHINGTON DC.

LE IMMAGINI DELL'INAUGURAZIONE 

 DI ELISABETTA BERNARDINI

    

    

   

           

                                                  

                                               

                                              

                                                                                

                                                                            

    

                                    

                                                                                                                              

                                                               

                                                

   SOTTO ALCUNE IMMAGINI DELL'AMBASCIATA D'ITALIA A WASHINGTON DC DOVE E'

   STATA ALLESTITA LA MOSTRA FLANGINI & MINNELLI IL CINEMA DIPINTO 

                                                                                                             

 

    

    

Photos by Elisabetta Bernardini 

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(English)

Flangini & Minnelli The painted cinema 

PAINTING WORKS INSPIRED BY THE FILM "Lust for Life" 

WASHINGTON DC EMBASSY OF ITALY - AUDITORIUM

A REAL SUCCESS FOR PUBLIC AND CRITICISM THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO GIUSEPPE FLANGINI PREPARED AS PART OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH AT THE PRESTIGIOUS SEAT OF THE EMBASSY OF ITALY IN WASHINGTON DC

Washington, DC, March 16th, 2012

Elisabetta Bernardini

Great public success and critical acclaim for the inauguration Thursday, March 15th 2012 of the art exhibition "Flangini & Minnelli The painted cinema" works inspired by the movie Lust for Life", called one of the most beautiful in the history of the storyboard cinema.

Superbly staged at the Auditorium of the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and placed under the high patronage of the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano exposure, promoted by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC was produced in collaboration with the Cultural Association Flangini that in recent years has been engaged in research, in private and public collections both in Italy and abroad, works from the cycle inspired by the masterful film by Vincente Minnelli.

The artistic direction was entrusted to the Cultural Colosseum Art that was able to emphasize that in setting the extraordinary collection of painting, some fifty works including oil paintings and several drawings made during the filming of the famous and award-winning film based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh

Giuseppe Flangini, who was chosen as the official artist on the set directed by the Italian-American director, has been the undisputed star of the evening opened by the inaugural concert for piano of the famous Italian composer Stefano Gueresi arrived from Mantua to perform in the U.S. capital, with the beautiful original music composed by him and inspired by the works of both Flangini and Minnelli.

 Of special effect was the screening of the poignant scenes of the film "Lust for Life" in the next panel to the tune of songs masterfully performed by Gueresi, and that really resumed images and figures marked on drawings on canvas and signed by the celebrated painter Venetian, showing surprising harmony which exists between painting and cinema.

Debut for Flangini in the U.S., the exhibition Art is part of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the death, which occurred suddenly in Verona in 1961.

On the occasion of the exhibition Flangini & Minnelli "The painted cinema" was presented outside the Auditorium of the Embassy, ​​an exhibition of Master ceramicist Claudio Cipriani, whose works are the result of extensive research on the introspective very meaning of life and the meaning of human existence, between reality and appearance.

 Cipriani wanted in this way to pay tribute to the Art and the Thought of Flangini as a source of inspiration for his own artistic vocation linked to the clay.

Thus, the Auditorium of the Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW located on the beautiful capital of the United States, in one artistic event were encountered different forms of art, carefully harmonized with each other, to pay homage to the same value of Art in the presence of an attentive and enthusiastic public, also characterized by numerous personalities of the institutions, culture, journalism, both Italian and American, and to affirm once more the principles of friendship that have always united Italy and the United States (Washington DC Elisabetta Bernardini)

COMMUNICATION AND PRESS OFFICE

TRANSLATIONS BY

ELISABETTA BERNARDINI

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