On display from January 11 to April 11, 2024
Curated by: Antonio Sgamellotti and Virginia Lapenta
Fabrizio Plessi. Poking holes in the sea
In the three-year period 2019-2021, Villa Farnesina was the exhibition venue for three important and interrelated exhibitions celebrating Leonardo, Raphael and Dante – the artists of The Triptych of Italian Ingenuity.
As a symbolic conclusion to the entire project, Fabrizio Plessi ‘s work was exhibited in the Loggia di Galatea Piercing the Sea, a triptych of his drawings. The artist’s extraordinary ability to insert himself in contexts of great historical and artistic relevance and tradition allows that his drawings are able to dialogue with the great pictorial cycles with intensity and, at the same time, with great discretion. The exhibition has has thus posed itself as an investigation into the functioning of creative thought, in which drawing represents the constituent skeleton of the opera of the artist.
Plessi, born in 1940, is one of the pioneers of video art in Italy, the first to have used the television monitor as a real material since the 1970s.
