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The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Embassy of Monaco in Russia are presenting an exhibition titled ‘Monaco. Artists’ Stories’, showcasing the modern and contemporary art of the Principality. The project is a story of friendship between two artists, Gérard Pettiti and Claude Rosticher, whose selection of art will introduce the wider public to Monaco’s unique artistic tradition.
Left to right: Gérard Pettiti and Claude Rosticher, Zourab Tsereteli – President of the Russian Academy of Arts and Mireille Pettiti, Ambassador of Monaco in Russia
The works of these two artists differ both in their pictorial style and the themes they choose to address. Nonetheless, they are unanimous in connecting their art with different aspects of the natural world. Whereas Pettiti gravitates towards the implications of the animal kingdom, his counterpart tends to explore the plant kingdom. For both artists, nature is what allows them to stay in tune with time and space.
Gérard Pettiti is in pursuit of plastic and psychological parallels between the ferial and the human, creating forceful portraiture of different living creatures. As for Claude Rosticher, a reputed master of Monegasque art, he addresses in his oeuvre the phenomena of the natural environment: sky, stars, and plants. But he also expresses his belief in the individual’s freedom within the world around us. His study of space by means of installations, happenings and painting began when he founded a conceptual art group the Sign (1968-1974) and continues to this day.
The display features not only works by Péttiti and Rosticher. It also addresses the art of their predecessors, being the mentors and authority figures for the Monaco art scene: Albert Diato, Léo Ferré, Armand Gatti, Luis Molné, the masters of the 20th century who took part in the making of European Modernism and Postmodernism. Photo and video documentation of these artists’ heritage are part of the display and provide an overall pattern for the development of Monegasque culture and art scene during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The project carries on the long-standing tradition of cultural exchange between Russian and Monegasque artistic institutions that dates back to the 19th century and remains to the present day.
‘Monaco, Artists’ Stories’ will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow from July 9th to August 11th, at the Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts from August 23rd to September 22nd and at the Russian Orthodox Cultural and Spiritual Centre in Paris from October 11th to November 1st, 2019.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has signed the Arctic Commitment and pledged its support for a ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping.
A new website, Monaco Santé, has been created in the Principality, providing information and services for residents and visitors including online bookings and consultations.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation has signed the Arctic Commitment and pledged its support for a ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping.
A new website, Monaco Santé, has been created in the Principality, providing information and services for residents and visitors including online bookings and consultations.
Monaco has just completed its seventh year of Winter School in conjunction with the Sciences Po Menton campus, only this year, all classes were held virtually for the first time ever.
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The Monaco Embassy in Germany has honoured the anniversary of the Advent of S.A.S. Prince Albert II with a traditional reception at the prestigious setting of the Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel.
Following the success of the first Défi Solidaire (Solidarity Challenge), initiated by the Directorate of International Cooperation (DCI) in June 2016, the government is launching a new edition of the challenge in which members of the administration will be able to participate, from June 12 to 30.
This year, the Défi Solidaire will allow each official and state agent to vote for micro-entrepreneurs of their choice through the Babyloan platform, a partner of the government. Projects with the highest number of votes will receive microcredits.
The amount of €28,000, allocated by the DCI, will be supplemented by the €22,000 loaned in 2016 and already reimbursed. Thanks to this system of reinjecting funds, more than 100 micro-entrepreneurs will be supported.
“Operation Babyloan” in 2016 attracted 800 voters over one month and as a result 52 projects were selected and financed by the DCI to the tune of €22,000. Four additional projects were financed with the first amounts reimbursed and 100 percent of loans have been repaid.
An information meeting was held on Monday, May 29, in the presence of Arnaud Poissonnier, Founding President of Babyloan. More than forty people participated, demonstrating their interest in social entrepreneurship. Babyloan, the first European solidarity lending site, allows people with very low incomes who are excluded from the traditional banking system to access a microcredit of €400 to €800 to set up or develop a small business.