Magazzini del sale, ''Plessi - Trilogy''

Venice

The set-up is almost finished.Keiko Shiraishi is reproducing on black ATS - Toscana canvas a sketch by Fabrizio Plessi, from behind on the left.The conditions of execution are by no means '' academic '', but the skill of a set designer painter is recognized even, if not above all, in critical situations.

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A brief comparison between the sketch and the result and Keiko confirms that the protective sheets can be removed from the floor.One can then ...

... dim the lights and the vernissage can be prepared.It all started a few months earlier from the desire of some Plessi's former students, now in turn teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, to have their pupils work ...

... with ‘’The Maestro’’, as Plessi is affectionately and respectfully called in the Academy, to set up an exhibition dedicated to himself.The famous artist makes himself available to his alma mater and, from the verification of the possibilities of the location, this sketch of the layout of the exhibition is born ...

... which exhibits three browsable books in succession, each dedicated to one of three disruptive theatrical productions that Plessi conceived in collaboration with the Belgian director Frédéric Flamand ...

... at the turn of the 80s and 90s of the twentieth century.The sensation aroused by the mises en place was such that even a choreographer of the caliber of Maurice Béjart not only gave in to the temptation to quote them, but also to go a little further.

A Belgian court, in fact, at the end of an almost ten-year diatribe with Flamand, in 1998 condemned Béjart for having plagiarized in one of his own productions The Fall of Icarus (1989), in the photo, in which a winged dancer crossed the stage wearing two monitors as if they were shoes.

After having elaborated Plessi's sketches, the students of the Academy obtain the renderings that will be used to check the spaces of one out of the nine Magazzini del sale, the one that the Academy uses for its own temporary exhibitions.

PLESSI - TRILOGY

A visionary journey into the theatrical art of Fabrizio Plessi and Frédéric Flamand

The ABA of Venice pays homage to one of its most internationally known alumni and teachers in one of the unrivaled locations in the Venetian Lagoon, the fifteenth century Magazzini del sale.
Fabrizio Plessi (Reggio Emilia, 1940), pioneer of video art, was a teacher of painting at the Venetian Academy and, subsequently, of Humanization of Technologies at the Kunsthochschule für Medien of Cologne, who also assigned him the chair of Electronic Scenography.
His work was often devoted to video-representations of the themes of water and fire, developed with hypnotic flows on large screens from which it is difficult to look away.
The theatrical sets developed for the Belgian director and choreographer Frédéric Flamand between the 80s and 90s, to which this exhibition is dedicated, have left a memory worthy of re-enactment.

Conception and care of the project

Nicola Bruschi
Lorenzo Cutùli

Design of the exhibition set-up

Fabrizio Plessi
ABA Venezia
Scuola di Scenografia e Scenotecnica
Scuola di NTA – Nuove Tecnologie dell’Arte

Pictorial elaborations

Keiko Shiraishi

Lighting design

Nevio Cavina

Audio video set-up

Target Due

Location

Magazzini del sale
5/3/2022 - 3/4/2022