Fabrizio Plessi

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Fabrizio Plessi (born April 3, 1940 in Reggio nell'Emilia ) is an Italian installation, media and video artist .

Life and artistic creation

“Plessi Tower” in Kronach
" Plessi-Bogen " in Braunschweig

Fabrizio Plessi studied painting at the Venice Art Academy . He initially dealt with performances and experimental films. He became internationally known with the new art form he developed in the mid-1970s, video sculpture. His works belong to Arte Povera and conceptual art . A main theme of his works is water, whereby he uses various means for his artistic installations , especially films, videos as well as performances and productions in which he uses stones, rusty iron, wood, straw and other materials. “Plessi's installations are always a game with being and appearances, the encounter between the real and the possible, between reality and virtuality . [...] Using the latest technology, he tries to track down age-old matter. ” This is also the case with his open-air video installation“ Waterfire ”; - The 10 m high “Plessi Tower” made of steel and monitors has been standing in front of the entrance to the State Garden Show in Kronach since 2002 .

Plessi exhibited his productions at the Kassel documenta as well as at the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Biennale and designed the Italian pavilion for the Expo 2000 world exhibition . A major solo exhibition that took place in the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1998 and which was subsequently taken over by important American museums was particularly successful . He held a professorship for "Electronic Scenography " at the Art Academy for Media Cologne and held a chair for "Humanization of Technologies" there from 1990 to 2000. In addition, the artist developed sets for theater and opera performances, for example, he created the sets for a concert by Luciano Pavarotti in New York's Central Park and for Mauro Bigonzetti's choreography of the ballet “Romeo and Juliet”.

The Plessi Museum was inaugurated on the Brenner motorway in 2013 - it presents videos, drawings and installations by the artist in a permanent exhibition. The museum is a motorway service station, therefore only accessible via the motorway and is in the immediate vicinity of the former Italian-Austrian customs station.

Plessi lives and works in Venice, Cologne and Mallorca.

Quote

  • "My art is an incessant search for poetry, history and the soul of things."
  • "My work is that of a peculiar alchemist who brings together typical materials from the sphere of art - such as iron, wood, marble - with the iridescent of the technical, the electronic."

Exhibitions (selection)

Books, illustrated books, exhibition catalogs

  • Lava. Fabrizio Plessi . Edited by Thomas Elsen. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-939583-19-6
  • Plessi, Digital Islands 1970–1990 . Edited by Richard W. Gassen. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2006. ISBN 978-3-939583-01-1
  • Wulf Herzogenrath and Dorothea van der Koelen: Documents of Our Time XXXIII: Panta Rhei , Chorus - Verlag, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-926663-33-2
  • Fabrizio Plessi - dream world. Ed. Carl Haenlein, Chorus Verlag, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-931876-54-3
  • Only fire. Fabrizio Plessi . Edition Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg 2001. ISBN 3-902001-05-4
  • Germany trip . Chorus-Verlag, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-931876-26-8
  • Fabrizio Plessi, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York . Texts by Dorothea van der Koelen and Andreas Dornbracht. Chorus-Verlag, Mainz and Munich 1998. ISBN 3-931876-23-3
  • Opus Video Sculpture . Catalog raisonné of the video sculptures and installations 1976–1998. Texts: Heinrich Klotz and Dorothea van der Koelen. Chorus-Verlag, Mainz 1998. ISBN 3-931876-19-5
  • Fabrizio Plessi, progetti del mondo . DuMont, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-7701-4042-7
  • Fabrizio Plessi. Rovina elettronica . Ursula Blickle Foundation. Kraichtal 1995. ISBN 3-930043-05-X
  • Plessi, Videoland Videolinz . New gallery of the city of Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum. Linz 1988
  • Christina Kubisch , Fabrizio Plessi. Concerts, video performances, installations . New Gallery, Ludwig Collection, Aachen 1979
  • Fabrizio Plessi. Kiel art gallery. March 13 / April 17, 1977 . Kunsthalle, Kiel 1977

Secondary literature and sources

  • Strange alchemist . 3sat program " Kulturzeit ". February 27, 2004.
  • Carsten Ahrens and Carl Haenlein: The Hanging Forest. L'Anima della materia . Kestner Society, Hanover 1999
  • Richard W. Gassen: Press release from October 19, 2006 on the exhibition in the “Wilhelm Hack Museum”, Ludwigshafen
  • Hans Gercke: Plessi water video projects . Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 1983
  • Carl Haenlein: dream world . Chorus-Verlag, Munich 2004
  • Edith Rabenstein: Fabrizio Plessi - the sculptor of video technology . In: "Passauer Neue Presse". October 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3sat broadcast “ Kulturzeit ”. February 27, 2004
  2. ^ "Aterballetto dances: Romeo and Juliet. Recording of the German premiere in October 2006 ”. 3sat broadcast on November 25, 2006
  3. ^ Museum website , accessed October 13, 2014
  4. ^ Quotation from the press release by Richard W. Gassen from October 19, 2006 on the exhibition in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen
  5. ↑ Fabrizio Plessi in the 3sat show Kulturzeit "Eigenartiger Alchemist" (2004)

Web links

Commons : Fabrizio Plessi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Plessi, Fabrizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian installation, media and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio nell'Emilia