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Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved popular music stars in Italy and abroad, with a large fan base across Europe, Asia, and South America. Her career began in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite having retired from public appearances at the end of the 1970s, Mina remains popular and successful today, and continues to release new albums that consistently debut in the number one spot of the Italian charts. Her popularity with Italian audiences can perhaps be explained whilst Mina is first and foremost a popular music star, she has also been a film star and a television personality during different phases of her career. She has advertised successful Italian brands on television, and she has been a magazine writer and agony aunt. She has thus become a household name in Italy. In this talk, we will discover precisely what kind of a star Mina is and what she signifies for audiences today. We will explore how her status as a diva has evolved during her career, how she has come to be a timeless icon of Italian popular music, and what she reveals about Italian culture and society from the 1950s to the present day.
FEATURING: Susanna Paisio, singer-songwriter and actress.
A DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE TALK
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THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY and jointly hosted with The Club di Londra. If you are not a member and you wish to attend, please contact us to be added on our guest list (subject to availability).
An exclusive view of the first solo exhibition in the UK of Emilio Vedova (1919-2006), one of the most influential abstract Italian artists of his time.
The exhibition will reunite his five monumental canvases from the landmark documenta 7 exhibition in 1982, curated by Rudi Fuchs. These paintings will be shown alongside a selection of important works from the 1980s, a period considered the pinnacle of the artist’s career. Presented in association with the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, this exhibition marks the fourth decade since his participation in documenta 7 in Kassel and the 40th Venice Biennale, held in the same year.
Founded in 1983, Thaddaeus Ropac has galleries across Europe and Asia, located in London, Paris, Salzburg and Seoul. Specialising in contemporary art and representing over 60 artists, the gallery supports and showcases the careers of some of the most influential artists today with a wide-ranging programme of over 40 exhibitions curated at the six extensive and historic gallery spaces each year.
The view includes a talk by a gallery representative followed by a drinks reception
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To participate to this event we do require a minimum donation of £5, however we strongly encourage all those attending to consider making a donation of £15. Thank you.
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Since it was founded in 1941, the British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, including Italy’s history, institutions, way of life, language and wider contribution to civilisation.
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