¤ FABRIZIO PLESSI (BORN 1940) Pirogue carved from... Lot 223

¤ FABRIZIO PLESSI (BORN 1940) Pirogue carved from a tree trunk, cast aluminum structure, housing four television screens obscured by a hard blue altuglas top plate. (Video-film of waterfalls not original). An installation, video setting with four television screens hidden by a blue altugas plate, pirogue sculpted in a trunk, aluminium cast structure. (No original video film). H 46 x W 284 x D 52 CM - H 18 1/8 x W 111 3/4 x D 20 1/2 IN HISTORICAL The aim of Plessi's work is a constant search for poetry, an attempt to humanize technology by using it as material. His work consists in breaking down the barriers between science and art. Water is an ancestral fact and video is a primitive element of today: the two are in perfect combination since they are fluid, mobile, unstable, and give a blue glow. Water here is not the sea, but the infinite spirit. PROVENANCE Collection of Nicolas Hélion, grandson of Peggy Guggenheim, acquired in November 2001, on the occasion of the collaborations during the Venice exhibitions.