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“The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants; we speak our city, ...
31/03/2026

“The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants; we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it.”
— Roland Barthes

On Sunday, 19 April 2026 at 6 pm, Villa Rondinelli is pleased to invite you to the opening of “La Fiorita”, a project by Scartoni/Donati, curated by Marco Mazzi.

Through the camera lens, we gain access to a unique aspect of the city’s unconscious and its hidden actors, where video editing becomes a narrative technique for telling the story of “La Fiorita”—understood both as the state of blossoming of any subject and as the eponymous company that pro-duces produce crates for the Novoli market.

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Irene Scartoni and Giacomo Donati graduated in Decoration and Painting from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where they are currently attending the postgraduate programme in New Expressive Lan-guages. Since 2022, they have collaborated under the name Scartoni/Donati, developing projects that explore the relationship between inhabitants and the city through sound experimentation, performative language, and new media. Their work investigates how perception and gaze transform inhabited space through intermedial practices and decontextualized everyday gestures. In 2024 they participated in Ar-te Fiera in Bologna, curated by Carlo Falciani.
The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.

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Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 19 April, 2026
6 PM
Free entry

The donation documents a direct passage between Pietro Grossi’s research and the generative practices later developed by...
31/03/2026

The donation documents a direct passage between Pietro Grossi’s research and the generative practices later developed by Sergio Maltagliati.

Mauro Cozzi, "Il mare dopo Taranto". Thanks to everyone who came at Villa Rondinelli yesterday.Photos by Andrea Di RitaV...
30/03/2026

Mauro Cozzi, "Il mare dopo Taranto". Thanks to everyone who came at Villa Rondinelli yesterday.

Photos by Andrea Di Rita
Video by Marco Mazzi

Sunday 29th March, 2026, 4:30 pm. Villa Rondinelli is pleased to invite you to Mauro Cozzi - “Il mare dopo Taranto” (The...
10/03/2026

Sunday 29th March, 2026, 4:30 pm. Villa Rondinelli is pleased to invite you to Mauro Cozzi - “Il mare dopo Taranto” (The Sea After Taranto).

With this exhibition dedicated to the work of Mauro Cozzi, Villa Rondinelli celebrates one of the most significant figures in contemporary Italian art, identifying painting as an important and precise medium for a symbolic and archetypal narration of the landscape. A multifaceted artist characterized by a profound theoretical awareness, Cozzi develops a personal discourse around an aquatic, marine, coastal landscape, whose boundaries open up to the light of the Mediterranean, to the fluorescence of the sun-beaten rocks. Light, water, sea foam, but also the human influence, fragments of a civilization that expresses itself as an almost imperceptible sign. The marine luminosity that forms the poetry of Paul Valery comes to mind, as does the fragmentary and conceptual sea of Mario Luzi, and the exuberance of the warm, almost astral light that permeates Carmelo Bene's 16-mm cinema.
Although the selected works by Cozzi are recent, with this exhibition Villa Rondinelli chooses to position itself as a hypothetical observatory of the culture and visual arts of Florence in the 1970s: a decade that was creatively and theoretically rich for the cultural history of the city, as well as a fundamental segment for the formation and expression of the artist's highly personal chromatic and imaginative gesture.

– Marco Mazzi (), artistic director, Villa Rondinelli.

The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.
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Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 29 March, 2026
4:30 PM
Free entry

'Untitled' by Ettore Pinelli (2020) was acquired as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection.
28/02/2026

'Untitled' by Ettore Pinelli (2020) was acquired as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection.

How do we relate to something that comes to an end? What remains of the living sap of a centuries-old tree that has been...
24/02/2026

How do we relate to something that comes to an end? What remains of the living sap of a centuries-old tree that has been cut down?

Join us on Sunday, 8 March at 5:30 pm for a screening of “Il battito evocato” (The Evoked Beat) by Francesco Bartoli ( ).

The film is the result of a long creative process involving a dying, centuries-old Oriental plane tree that has been lying in Rome's Botanical Gardens for many years. The film, like the rest of the works, was created with the aim of vibrating and giving new life to a dying body. The film will be installed in dialogue with the work “La bocca sputa sogni” (The mouth spits dreams), recently acquired by Villa Rondinelli as part of the Art e Botany collection.

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Graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Francesco Bartoli’s interdisciplinary practice combines drawing with frottage, video, animation, and performance. His international carreer features a vast range of projects and includes solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid and the Museum of Roman Art in Mérida. He took part in the Italian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale and presented his solo exhibition “El Escondite" at the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid.
His work has received the Support for Contemporary Art award from Spain’s Ministry of Culture, as well as support from the Italian Council X and PAC2021 (Italy’s Ministry of Culture), and has been featured at PhotoEspaña, Documenta Madrid, Farm Cultural Park, and the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, among others. His documentary “Scolpire il vento” (2023) entered the permanent collection of mudaC – Museo delle Arti di Carrara.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Scolpire la memoria” at Dìnamo Gallery of ESAP Porto (2021), “Ecos: la fuerza de los fragments” at EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (2024), “Scolpire il vento” at mudaC – Museo delle Arti di Carrara (2023), and the site-specific project “Il Battito Evocato” at the Botanical Garden Museum of Rome (2025).

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The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.

Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 08 March
5:30 PM
Free entry

Setting up... Join us tomorrow, Sunday, 22 February from 5:30 pm for an evening of video art by Duccio Ricciardelli and ...
20/02/2026

Setting up... Join us tomorrow, Sunday, 22 February from 5:30 pm for an evening of video art by Duccio Ricciardelli and Marco Bartolini.

In this exhibition curated by Marco Mazzi (), Florentine video artists Duccio Ricciardelli and Marco Bartolini present Desert Sand (2020) and Soggettive Sonore (2026), two experimental black-and-white video works where narration emerges through sound and electronic music.

Desert Sand (4’49”) was specifically created for the international open call launched by Brian and Roger Eno for their album Mixing Colours released by Deutsche Grammophon. Selected from over 1,700 submissions worldwide, Ricciardelli and Bartolini were the only Italian winners. The video, now the official visual for the track, translates the artists’ isolation during the Covid pandemic into a quiet, meditative seascape where light and minimal music merge.

The screening continues with Soggettive Sonore (28’), a subjective journey inspired by the Rorschach test, following a solitary flâneur in search of silence and inner balance.

Artists
Duccio Ricciardelli (b. 1976) is a filmmaker and visual artist working between documentary, experimental cinema, and photography. He has collaborated with Rai, Netflix, Arte, and contemporary art institutions in Italy and worldwide.

Marco Bartolini (b. 1977) is a visual artist trained in painting and multimedia arts, working with video art, editing, color grading, and stencil-based painting practices.
We look forward to welcoming you.

The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.

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Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 22 February
5:30 PM
Free entry

A conversation between Irene Scartoni, Giacomo Donati ( ) and Marco Mazzi () is now available on Villa Rondinelli's Yout...
20/02/2026

A conversation between Irene Scartoni, Giacomo Donati ( ) and Marco Mazzi () is now available on Villa Rondinelli's Youtube channel (link in bio).

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a work by Yueping Wu as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection.
04/02/2026

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a work by Yueping Wu as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection.

Join us at Villa Rondinelli on Sunday, 22 February from 5:30 pm for an evening of video art by Duccio Ricciardelli and M...
03/02/2026

Join us at Villa Rondinelli on Sunday, 22 February from 5:30 pm for an evening of video art by Duccio Ricciardelli and Marco Bartolini.

In this exhibition curated by Marco Mazzi (), Florentine video artists Duccio Ricciardelli and Marco Bartolini present Desert Sand (2020) and Soggettive Sonore (2026), two experimental black-and-white video works where narration emerges through sound and electronic music.

Desert Sand (4’49”) was specifically created for the international open call launched by Brian and Roger Eno for their album Mixing Colours released by Deutsche Grammophon. Selected from over 1,700 submissions worldwide, Ricciardelli and Bartolini were the only Italian winners. The video, now the official visual for the track, translates the artists’ isolation during the Covid pandemic into a quiet, meditative seascape where light and minimal music merge.

The screening continues with Soggettive Sonore (28’), a subjective journey inspired by the Rorschach test, following a solitary flâneur in search of silence and inner balance.

Artists
Duccio Ricciardelli (b. 1976) is a filmmaker and visual artist working between documentary, experimental cinema, and photography. He has collaborated with Rai, Netflix, Arte, and contemporary art institutions in Italy and worldwide.

Marco Bartolini (b. 1977) is a visual artist trained in painting and multimedia arts, working with video art, editing, color grading, and stencil-based painting practices.
We look forward to welcoming you.

The event is free of charge and free for everyone to attend.

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Villa Rondinelli
Via Bandini 15, 50014 Fiesole (FI)
Sunday, 22 February
5:30 PM
Free entry

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a work by Alexandra Rinja () as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection. A...
25/01/2026

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a work by Alexandra Rinja () as part of the Villa Rondinelli collection. At the link in bio, a video of the artist in conversation with Marco Mazzi (), creative director of Villa Rondinelli.

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