Fabrizio Plessi

(Italian, born 1940)

digital wall by fabrizio plessi

Fabrizio Plessi

Digital Wall, 2016

107,000 EUR

Biography

Timeline

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

2015
Foresta Blu, Contemporary Exhibition Hall, IULM, Milan, Italy
2014
Plessi – Sul viaggio, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Fabrizio Plessi, François Schneider Foundation, Le Centre d’Art Contemporain_Wattwiller
2013
Inauguration of the Plessi Museum, Brenner Pass, Italy
Fabrizio Plessi, Sala dei Giganti, Mantova, Italy (solo)
Fabrizio Plessi – Il flusso della ragione, Palazzo della Ragione, Padova, Italy (solo)
2012
Il flusso della ragione, Palazzo della Ragione, Padova, Italy
Monumenta, Parco archeologico e paesaggistico Valle dei templi di Agrigento, Italy
Blu, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venice, Italy
2011
Mari Verticali, 54 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

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
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
Plessi-Progetti del Mondo ( Global Projects) Cologne, 1997, texts by Gérard A.Goodrow
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
3rd Biennial of Lyon, National Union of Museums, Lyon, 1996, texts by Thierry Raspail, Thierry Prat and Georges Rey