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.