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Fabrizio Plessi    (Italian, 1940)

 Fabrizio Plessi - Black Circles (Installations)
Fabrizio Plessi
Black Circles 2008
 
 Fabrizio Plessi - Digital Stones Lava Project, design for a video installation (Paintings) h: 150 x w: 200 cm / h: 59.1 x w: 78.7 in
Fabrizio Plessi
Digital Stones Lava Project, design for a video installation 2007
 
 Fabrizio Plessi - Forest of Fire (Installations) h: 280 x w: 50 x d: 50 cm / h: 110.2 x w: 19.7 x d: 19.7 in
Fabrizio Plessi
Forest of Fire 2002
 
 Fabrizio Plessi - Icone (4) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 70 x w: 100 cm / h: 27.6 x w: 39.4 in
Fabrizio Plessi
Icone (4) 2008
 
 Fabrizio Plessi - Icone (5) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 70 x w: 100 cm / h: 27.6 x w: 39.4 in
Fabrizio Plessi
Icone (5) 2008
 
 Fabrizio Plessi - Icone (6) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 70 x w: 100 cm / h: 27.6 x w: 39.4 in
Fabrizio Plessi
Icone (6) 2008
 
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Biography
1940 Born in the region of Reggio Emilia
1968 Since this time, Plessi has been fascinated by water, a recurring theme which has become the focus of his artwork in the form of installations, films, videotapes and performances
1987 Displays Roma, a monumental installation in Kassel, and from this moment becomes notoriously famous on an international scale with exhibitions in many prestigious locations worldwide
2003 Creates an installation for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection entitled Digital Fall
2005 Creates an updated version of Mare Verticale, visible at the entrance to the Biennial Gardens (Giardini) in Venice

Exhibitions
2007 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2007 Stopover, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2003 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2003 Art Cologne 2003, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
1986 Venice Biennial
1985 Rotunda Besana, Milan, Italy
1972 Venice Biennial
1970 Venice Biennial

Literature
2004 Fabrizio Plessi. Traumwelt (Dreamworld), Exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, edited by Chorus Verlag, Berlin, 2004
2002 Plessi Paradiso Inferno (Infernal Paradise), Exhibition catalogue, Rome, Stables of the Quirinale, edited by Electa, Milan 2002
1999 Fabrizio Plessi. Der Hängende Wald. L’anima della materia (Soul of the Matter), Hannover 1999, edited by Carl Haenlein; texts by Carsten Ahrens, Carl Haenlein and Kestner Gesellschaft
1998 Fabrizio Plessi. Opus Video Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonnè, Munich, 1998, text by Dorothea van der Koelen
1998 L’Arca dell’Arte (The Ark of Art), Museum of Art History, Vienna, 1998, text by Wilfried Seipel
1997 Contemporary Art - The Collection of ZKM, Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, 1997, texts by Heinrich Klotz
1997 Plessi-Progetti del Mondo ( Global Projects) Cologne, 1997, texts by Gérard A.Goodrow
1997 Fabrizio Plessi Fez-Fez, Kaufbeuren Art Gallery, Kaufbeuren, 1997, text by Boris von Brauchitsch
1996 Art Medial, Palma di Majorca, 1996, texts by Thomas Wegner, Wulf Herzogenrath, La Llonja and Govern Balaer
1996 3rd Biennial of Lyon, National Union of Museums, Lyon, 1996, texts by Thierry Raspail, Thierry Prat and Georges Rey
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