Archivio di Nuova Scrittura [SEP] location of formation
Archivio di Nuova Scrittura
The Archivio di Nuova Scrittura ("Archive of New Writing", "ANS") is a cultural association founded in 1988 in Milan, Italy by art collector Paolo Della Grazia. The archive preserves a large artistic and documentary heritage about any form of artistic expression featuring the use of both the word and the sign. 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
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Life Archivio di Nuova Scrittura.
Nel 1988 Paolo Della Grazia, collector of works of the verbo-visual movements since the 1960s, founded the Archivio di Nuova Scrittura ("Archive of New Writing", ANS) with the help of Carrega. The ANS continues the experience of the Mercato del Sale, being hosted in the same venue in via Orti 16. The ANS documentation center and library were subsequently expanded and currently constitute an exceptional body of knowledge about the national and international verbo-visual movements. The