Archivio di Nuova Scrittura

[1] Born from the encounter between Della Grazia and artist Ugo Carrega, in the 1990s the ANS became the main Italian research center on visual poetry, organizing exhibitions, meetings and other cultural events.

[5] Della Grazia moved his whole collection, that had become much larger through the years and included artworks, books and documents about any form of artistic expression that features the use of the word and the sign, to the same venue in Via Orti.

[6] On 24 May 1988, Della Grazia founded the Associazione culturale per lo Scritturalismo (Cultural Association for Scripturalism), that after a few months acquired the name Archivio di Nuova Scrittura (Archive of New Writing), clearly influenced by Carrega's poetics.

[7] The scopes of the Association also include any activity aimed at promoting knowledge, research, information about experiences and operations in the field of visual arts, with the objective of making concrete contributions of culture, professionalism and experience.The office of the ANS was opened in Autumn 1989.

[11] The following exhibition was Poesia concreta in Brasile (Concrete Poetry in Brazil), featuring works by Brazilian poets Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, and Décio Pignatari, members of the Noigandres group.

[11] The exhibition was opened on 21 March and lasted until 21 June 1991, then moved to the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili in Rome, in 1993 to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Marseille, to the Lyon Biennale and finally, in 1995, to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo.

Linguaggio/immagine also included works by Piero Manzoni, Emilio Scanavino, Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero Boetti, and several young artists such as Maurizio Arcangeli, Mariella Bettineschi, Gianni Gangai, Francesco La Fosca, and Alessandro Traina.

Lo spazio della scrittura (The Space of Writing), exhibited in the same year, included works by Vincenzo Accame, Nanni Balestrini, Irma Blank, Ugo Carrega, Luciano Caruso, Corrado D'Ottavi, Emilio Isgrò, Ketty La Rocca, Stelio Maria Martini, Eugenio Miccini, Magdalo Mussio, Anna Oberto, Martino Oberto, Luca Maria Patella, Lamberto Pignotti, Sarenco, Adriano Spatola, and Franco Vaccari.

In the 1990s the ANS organized frequent cultural events, including the series Parola e immagine (Word and Image, 1990), with Luciano Caramel, Vittorio Fagone, Vanni Scheiwiller, Emilio Tadini and Gillo Dorfles, Alfabeto in libertà (Alphabet in Freedom, 1991) with Cesare Segre, Tomaso Kemeny, Rossana Bossaglia and Tullio Crali, a conference about Ezra Pound with Kemeny and Scheiwiller (1993), and a series of meetings about Futurism featuring Bossaglia, Caramel, Claudia Salaris, Enrico Crispolti, and Anty Pansera (1995).

For instance, the Mart hosts the Libro imbullonato (Bolted Book) by Fortunato Depero (1927), Chimismi lirici (Lyrical Chemism) by Ardengo Soffici (1915), and the Litolatte by Tullio d'Albisola and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

The ANS collection hosted by the Museion includes about 2,000 works by exponents of concrete and visual poetry, such as Shusaku Arakawa, Terry Atkinson, Franco Vaccari (conceptual art), Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts (Fluxus).

On 10 November 2007 the Mart opened the La parola nell'arte (The Word in Art) exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Museion and curated by a committee headed by Giorgio Zanchetti and composed of Gabriella Belli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Andreas Hapkemeyer, Nicoletta Boschiero, Paola Pettenella, Melania Gazzotti, Daniela Ferrari, and Julia Trolp.

On 23 May 2008 the Museion moved to a new building, and director Corinne Diserens curated the exhibition Sguardo periferico & corpo collettivo (Peripheral Look & Collective Body), including works by Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, George Brecht, Günter Brus, John Cage, Calvin Sumsion, Paul de Vree, Jakov Dorfmann, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwarz, Ugo La Pietra, Piero Manzoni, Hermann Nitsch, Anna Oberto, Claudio Parmiggiani, Man Ray, Sarenco, Cy Twombly, Franco Vaccari, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams.