Fabrizio Plessi Biography
Plessi Fabrizio (Reggio nell'Emilia, 1940) Fabrizio Plessi is an Italian video artist. His video installations combine monitors with structures of wood, iron, stone and objects, recreating a strong emotional impact and an interrelationship between sound, image, light and movement. He created, together with F. Flamand, electronic sets for the theatre. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice together with Santomaso and Saetti. His works are present in the most important contemporary art museums and the artist received various awards, such as the "City of Milan" Award at the Venice Film Festival (1980), the UNESCO Mirò medal (1993). He held several retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, and at the Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art gallery in Vienna.