Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles

Last Tuesday at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, we celebrated through cinema, conversation, and community with our European Short Film Night — one of the very first initiatives of the new EUNIC Los Angeles cluster.

is the European network of organizations dedicated to international cultural relations. Founded in 2025, the Los Angeles cluster currently brings together the Austrian Consulate General, Consulate General of the Czech Republic, Honorary Consulate of Denmark, Alliance Française de Los Angeles, Goethe-Institut, Italian Cultural Institute, Consulate General of Ireland Los Angeles, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Instituto Cervantes, and Honorary Consulate of Sweden, with the support of local partners including .losangeles and

For the occasion, seven countries — Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Austria, and Poland — came together through a selection of short films exploring the theme of truth through memory, identity, and relationships.

The evening continued with a panel discussion featuring Vera Mijojlić from the South East European Film Festival, filmmaker Boris Schaarschmidt, prof. Gian Maria Annovi from , Mateusz Gmura from the Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles, and Nils Longueira Borrego from , followed by a reception inspired by the culinary traditions of the participating countries 🇪🇺

Thank you to everyone who joined us for such a warm and meaningful beginning for EUNIC Los Angeles!

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On 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 Italy honors the courage that shaped our freedom.
We celebrate the end of the N**i occupation, the fall of the Fascist regime and the victory of the Italian resistance movement that gave us democracy and the foundation of the modern Italian Republic.

Last Thursday, we opened at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles the exhibition “Fortunato Depero: Graphic Art Between Italy & the United States”.

The show arrives in the City of Angels directly from Washington, D.C.—where it was first presented at the Embassy of Italy—and is the result of a collaboration with the Archivio Depero and StArt.

Curated by Maurizio Scudiero, the exhibition brings together around 50 works tracing the evolution of Fortunato Depero as a graphic designer, illustrator, and visual thinker.

Depero was the only Futurist to experience New York firsthand, and one of the first artists to understand that modern life would be shaped not only by art in museums, but by images, by graphic language, by communication, by everything we see, every day.

He imagined a world in which art enters everyday life—through advertising, typography, publishing, and design.

Nearly a century later, that intuition feels incredibly familiar.

On view through June 30, as part of the Italian program for the commemorations.

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