The Italian Fabrizio Plessi works like a therapist to illuminate the dark areas of thought with the delight and sweetness of water flows.
As a true alchemist, he uses the forces of nature, the tellurics elements, the water as a primary energy, merging them with the video.
Materia prima (1989) works like a creation of the world, a stone volcano from which emerges, like the original egg, a silent television monitor.
Fabrizio Plessi is an Italian visual artist, born in 1940 in Reggio Emilia. He studied and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
Exhibitions (selection)
2018
- V.I.E. V.ideo I.mage E.volution, group show, Galerie W, Paris, France
2015
- Adaptation of a new version of Foresta Blu, IULM Museum, Milan, Italy
2014
- Liquid Labyrint, Musée de Ludwig, Budapest, Hungary
- Foresta Sospesa, Foundation Schneider, Wattwiller, France
- Plessi, gli anni settanta, Homage from Milan to Plessi
- Plessi-sul viaggio, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2013
- RollingStone, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
- Lava digitale, Palazzo Durini, Milan, Italy
- 6 Oeuvres digitales, Agence Adnkronoscolor, Rome, Italy
- Inauguration of Plessi Museum, Passo del Brennero, Italy
2012
- Blu, Galleria Contini, Venice, Italy
- Monumenta, Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi, Agrigente, Italy
2011
- Water windows, Galleria Contini, Venice, Italy
- Llaut Light, Palma, Spain
2010
- Digital scenography of the opera Vestire gli ignudi, Teatro Goldoni, Venice, Italy
- Mari verticali, Ile de la Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy
2009
- New version of Digital Fall, Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
- Video installation L’anima della pietra, Institut des Sciences des Lettres et des Arts, Venice, Italy
- L’anima dell’acqua, Ca' D'Oro, Venice, Italy
- Infinitum, Fortuny Museum, Venice, Italy
2008
- Il lusso è lento, Canton Road, Hong Kong
- Fusion, Canton Road, Hong Kong
2006
- Romeo&Juliet: collaboration with the danse compagny Italienne-Aterballetto, Reggio d'Emilie, Italy
- Digital Islands, HackMusuem, Ludwigshagen, Germany
2005
- Digital Stones, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy
- Memory Motions, Kistefos-Museet, Norway
- New version of Mare Verticale, Venise's 51th Biennial of Art, Italy
2004
- I Lavatoi dell’Anima, Musée Es Baluard, Palma de Majorque, Spain
2003
- Fulcolor, Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
2002
- Plessi Paradiso Inferno, Scuderie Papali, Roma, Italy
2001
- Cairo-Cairo II, 8th Biennial of Cairo, Egypt
- Waterfire, Musée Correr, Venice, Italy
- Roma II, Musée Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
- Teatro Electtronico della Memoria, Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy
2000
- Naufragio della Pittura, Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna, Italy
- Anima della Materia, Almudín de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Mare Verticale, universal exhibition of Hanovre, Hanovre, Germany
- Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, Biennial of Gwangju, South Korea
1998
- Retrospective on his video installation: Guggenheim to New York, United-States & San Diego's Comtemporary Art Museum, California
1997
- Progetti del Mundo, Foundation Peggy Guggenheim of Venice, Venice, Italy
1996
- Il Fiume della Storia, Landesmuseum, Mayence, Allemagne & Mausolée de Graz, Austria
- Acquedotto Electtronico, Heidelberger Kunsterverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1995
- Fuochi Fatui, Foundation Pilar and Joan, Palma de Majorque, Spain
- L'anima della pietra, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
1994
- Collaboration with Frederic Flamand, opera Ex Machina
- Electronic scenography Premiere, Studio Moor
1993
- Video installation Bombay-Bombay, Musée Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
- Cristalli Liquidi, Biennial of Venice, Venice, Italy
- Liquid Time, Berlin, Germany
1992
- Electronic scenography Titanic, Musée de l'Industrie, Charleroi, Belgium
1991
- Roma II, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
- Profido a Pergine, Foundation "Sa Nostra", Palma de Majorque, Spain
1989
- Videosal, Palau Solleric, Palma de Majorque, Spain
- Movimenti Catodici, Palazzo dei Diamenti, Ferrara, Italy
- Borealis, Lousiana Museum, Humlebael, Denmark
- Scenography, Opera The Fall of Icarus, Brussels
1988
- Great Retrospective of his work presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain
- Videoland - Videolinz, Neu Galerie, Liz, Austria
1987
- Roma, Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
- Scenography Sciame, Festival di Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
1986
- Bronx, 42th Biennial of Venice, Venice, Italy
1985
- Plessi-Video Going, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy
1981
- Underwater, Film Festival, Venice, Italy
1980
- Liquid Movie, Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Prizes
1999
- Prize Kunstpreis der Nord/LB, Hanovre, Germany
1987
- International prize L’immagine elettronica, Bologna, Italy
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