from April 26 to September 30, 2008
Gallery Contini, Campo Santo Stefano

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Fabrizio Plessi represents from long time, in the panorama of contemporary art, an important reference. His experiments have placed him in the protagonists of the videoart, expressive form of which he was a pioneer. Lately the creative research of Plessi has focused on the potential of lava, seen as liquid fire and mediated through the digital image. From April 26, 2008 is on display at the Gallery Contini near Campo Santo Stefano.
It is a cycle of works made with black basalt stones from Turkey. The stone contains images of lava, which seems to vibrate almost was animated. In fact, the lava is only evoked and to give life to this effective fiction are hidden videos below the surface of rough blocks. For decades the artist implements this evocative fiction, humanizing modern technology, with water and fire, the bricks and trees, just like Michelangelo was turning, for example, the marble in a lively Moses.
The exhibition of “sculptures” is supplemented by a thirty-design projects, however, formally autonomous and suggestive.

Tania Danieli