Senzacornice is a non-profit cultural association founded in 2011 by Alessandra Acocella and Caterina Toschi. The association publishes Senzacornice | Digital Contemporary Art Journal and coordinates the project Senzacornice | Research and Education Lab for Contemporary Art, focused on the study, promotion and dissemination of contemporary artistic culture, with particular attention to the Tuscan context. The Lab aims to combine pure research and academic education with their applied meaning by working on projects (digital archives, digital tools, educational activities, virtual stories, documentaries, conferences, workshops) in partnership with museums, foundations, exhibition and education centres.
The Santa Maddalena Foundation lies outside the village of Donnini (Reggello, Florence). Beatrice Monti della Corte, the founder and, for many years, the director of the renowned Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan, set about restoring with her husband Gregor von Rezzori the house and the tower (the writer and traveler Bruce Chatwin described her as “having a flair for putting fantasies into action”). The Rezzoris became known for their hospitality; visiting writers and artists – who included Bruce Chatwin, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Hughes and Bernardo Bertolucci – found Santa Maddalena an irresistible place to work, and tended to return to it again and again. After the death of Gregor von Rezzori the Foundation became a retreat for writers and organizes the Festival Degli Scrittori, a three day celebration of international literature that takes place in Florence each Spring. The centerpiece of the festival is the Premio Gregor von Rezzori – Città di Firenze, a prize that is awarded to the best work of fiction translated into Italian the previous year.
Senzacornice is a non-profit cultural association founded in 2011 by Alessandra Acocella and Caterina Toschi. The association publishes Senzacornice | Digital Contemporary Art Journal and coordinates the project Senzacornice | Research and Education Lab for Contemporary Art, focused on the study, promotion and dissemination of contemporary artistic culture, with particular attention to the Tuscan context. The Lab aims to combine pure research and academic education with their applied meaning by working on projects (digital archives, digital tools, educational activities, virtual stories, documentaries, conferences, workshops) in partnership with museums, foundations, exhibition and education centres.
The Santa Maddalena Foundation lies outside the village of Donnini (Reggello, Florence). Beatrice Monti della Corte, the founder and, for many years, the director of the renowned Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan, set about restoring with her husband Gregor von Rezzori the house and the tower (the writer and traveler Bruce Chatwin described her as “having a flair for putting fantasies into action”). The Rezzoris became known for their hospitality; visiting writers and artists – who included Bruce Chatwin, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Hughes and Bernardo Bertolucci – found Santa Maddalena an irresistible place to work, and tended to return to it again and again. After the death of Gregor von Rezzori the Foundation became a retreat for writers and organizes the Festival Degli Scrittori, a three day celebration of international literature that takes place in Florence each Spring. The centerpiece of the festival is the Premio Gregor von Rezzori – Città di Firenze, a prize that is awarded to the best work of fiction translated into Italian the previous year.