{"title":"Fabrizio Plessi","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogues, artist publications, and printed ephemera by or relating to Fabrizio Plessi (b. 1940, Reggio Emilia). Known for his long engagement with water as medium, metaphor, and civic subject, Plessi's practice spans performance, installation, video, and works on canvas. Objects here document exhibitions from the 1970s onward, including early Italian institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fabrizio-plessi-acquabiografia-centro-galleria-arte-contemporanea-turin-1975","title":"Fabrizio Plessi — Acquabiografia, Centro \/ Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 1975","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue published on the occasion of \u003cem\u003eAcquabiografia\u003c\/em\u003e, Fabrizio Plessi's solo exhibition at Centro \/ Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, inaugurated 22 January 1975. Bilingual Italian and German text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue documents 200 collages made under the title \u003cem\u003eAcquabiografia\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Plessi treats water not as a natural element but as an unstable system of images, tools, absurd functions, and poetic substitutions. Works from 1972–74 are reproduced throughout, including \u003cem\u003eAnalogie Sostitutive\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), \u003cem\u003eMaschera antiacqua\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eA bordo della Carnegie\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eCanotto da deserto\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eStiraonde dall'acquabiografico\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), and \u003cem\u003eMare classico\u003c\/em\u003e (1974) — all acrylic on emulsioned canvas, format 125 × 81 cm. Each work is reproduced as a full spread, with title, date, and medium listed on the facing page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenice is central to the project: flooding, cleaning, drains, sponges, soap, aquariums, and machines become imaginary solutions to a real civic and environmental condition. The text places Plessi in dialogue with — and against — Klaus Rinke, whose use of elemental materials is cited as a counterpoint. References to Giorgione, Leonardo, Géricault, and Duchamp are also present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue essay positions \u003cem\u003eAcquabiografia\u003c\/em\u003e as a precise emancipation from the rationalization of nature: water is paradoxically removed from its usual state as object, transformed through equipment into useless material, and made available as metaphor. Plessi's humour — grotesque, absurdist, and civic — runs throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcrylic on emulsioned canvas works reproduced throughout. Bilingual Italian\/German critical text. Square format. Condition: Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53340761325906,"sku":"PLESSI-ACQUABIOGRAFIA-1975","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Fabrizio_Plessi_1975_001.jpg?v=1777936294"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/fabrizio-plessi.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}