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As occurred in 2013 with Torino incontra la Francia (Torino meets France); 2015 is characterised by a new journey, that of Torino incontra Berlino (Turin meets Berlin), a journey that embellishes, by its rich agenda of initiatives and events, the cultural offers of Turin for the EXPO and leads to the knowledge of art and culture of two populations which are not afraid to engage in new ways, by sharing the wealth of similarities and the beauty of differences.
From January 29th to May 3rd, the National Cinema Museum presents a rich iconography at the Mole Antonelliana, following a thematic path that highlights the different themes and genres of war photography and cinema. Institutional shots, propaganda images of great aesthetic impact, amateur photographs, less aesthetic, taken by amateur photographer-soldiers and, in parallel, film sequences and literary quotations offer the visual story of the Great War to visitors.
As part of the celebrations for the Day of Memory and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz the idea was born of narrating the writer and chemist, a witness of the Holocaust, starting from his tale Carbonio, included in his collection of short stories The Periodic Table. The exhibition in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, from January 22nd to April 6th, is organised in collaboration with the Primo Levi International Studies Centre.
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A large hourglass involves the city in a countdown towards the opening of the new Egyptian Museum on April 1st. Located in the beautiful Piazza San Carlo, a few steps away from the Egyptian Museum, the hourglass is scheduled to complete its cycle at the time of the inauguration. But first, grain by grain, the passage of time gradually reveals a hidden treasure ...
Passages is the theme of the fourth edition of the Biennale Democrazia in Turin from March 25th to 29th 2015. Passages that can serve as a link between two sites separated by a border, a wall or a barrier - physical, mental or virtual - but which can also mark a turn, a threshold beyond which the world and our perception of it changes, as happens for the life stages of individuals or for historical epochs.