Day: 22 March 2018

An important exhibition of post-war Masters will take place from April 19 until May 26 at Gallery Adriano Ribolzi.

The impressive exhibition dedicated to celebrated Masters of the post-war era will be a tribute to some of the greatest artists of the second half of the twentieth century, with works selected with care to melt in a unique atmosphere some examples of artistic trends that have undoubtedly contributed to an evolution of the History of Art, such as Andy Warhol and Mario Schifano’s Pop Art, Alighiero Boetti’s Arte Povera and the Minimalism of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Agostino Bonalumi and the “father of minimalism”, Enrico Castellani, who died in December 2017.

Additionally, precious ceramics by Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti, with marble sculptures by Pablo Atchugarry, and luminous surfaces of Getulio Alviani will be on display at the gallery at 3/7 avenue de’l’Hermitage.

The exhibition will be open to the public at from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to midday and from 2:30 pm to 7 pm.

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A few weeks before the Grand Prix History and Grand Prix Formula 1, the Urban Planning Department will undertake a road repair operation for part of the circuit.

These regular asphalt repairs also allow the Principality to have a particularly well-maintained network of urban roads.

The asphalt used on the F1 circuit has properties that meet the requirements of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). Its formulation, in particular, is specific to Formula 1, and more efficient in terms of tearing and resistance.

This year, the sections to be resurfaced are: the roundabout Portier and Boulevard Louis II; Boulevard Albert 1er; the road to the pool/Darse north; and the Quai des Etats-Unis.

To minimise the impact to traffic, this work will be carried out mainly at night.

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The current owner of a 66-percent stake in AS Monaco is Dimitri Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire Monaco resident.

While the club itself has denied the reports, the Gazzetta remarked that minority shareholder HSH Prince Albert, who takes a keen interest in the club, would not be against such a sale following a string of court cases in which Mr Rybolovlev has been involved.

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The racing driver Charles Leclerc, the 2017 Formula 2 World Champion, has been received by the Ambassador of Monaco in Australia, HE Catherine Fautrier.

HE Fautrier received the 20-year old driver, who was born and bred in Monaco, on Wednesday, March 21, on the occasion of his first Grand Prix as a Formula 1 driver, as part of the Alfa-Romeo Sauber team.

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Raphaël Simonet, Head of Division at the Directorate of the Environment, represented the Principality at the sixth plenary session of IPBES – the Intergovernmental Scientific and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, held in Medellin, Colombia.

IPBES, created in 2012, is an intergovernmental body open to any member of the United Nations. This sixth session, which runs from March 17 to 24, brings together around 800 people, including government delegates and stakeholders involved in the Platform’s activities.

Intended to improve the links between knowledge and decision-making, the Platform aims to identify and develop decision support methods that take into account all relevant knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services from scientific research, governments, NGOs and local actors.

During this sixth plenary session the summaries for decision makers of the four regional assessment areas – the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Central Asia – and the evaluation of land degradation and restoration are likely to be approved.

Topics related to IPBES procedures, as well as financial matters, will also be discussed. Progress will be examined in terms of overall assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and thematic and methodological analyses that experts from around the world have developed in recent years.

On March 26, a second assessment will be extracted from a fifth report on the state of the world’s soils, each day more degraded by pollution, deforestation, mining and unsustainable agricultural practices that impoverish them.

Some 600 researchers have volunteered for three years on these assessments, which synthesise the data of about 10,000 scientific publications. The final result covers almost the entire planet.

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