April alla Italiana

April, could otherwise be called the Month of Italian Culture in Tirana. This month, it’s expected that a series of activities will be realized organized by the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC). There will be exhibitions, films by well known Italian producers and with famous Italian casts, concerts with personalities of Italian Music. These days the IIC, together with the Association “Friends of Vila Strohl Fern of Rome” opened an exhibition promoted by the Ministry of Italian Foreign Affairs called, “The School of Rome-Artists in Rome between the Two Wars,” which will remain open from 9 April to 7 May. This exhibition is presented as a kind of imaginary journey in the artistic life and throughout the cultures of the capital, shown in 48 paintings, sculptures, drawings and a nucleus of original documents (catalogues, books, letters, photographs, magazines), which are on loan from heirs or archives of artists or from cultural institutions in Rome. This exhibition is divided into three sections: “The Artists and Studies,” which include self portraits, portraits of artists and their supporters and the occasional landscape. “The Soul City,” the title of which has been taken from a selection of lyrical poems of the same title by Giorgio Vigolos (1923), attempts to show to us the personal method used by the artists to perceive the city of Rome, replete with history and brilliant and ancient myths, as well as how they view every day life in the capital. One after the other you can see the paintings of locations selected by the aertists, which present their vision of a monumental Rome. The final section, “Bodies that have shapes,” is a section, which in essence is not only devoted to “a body”, which is a heavily present theme in Catholic Rome. After the Albanian capitals, this exhibition is expected to open in other countries.