Fabrizio Plessi
«Roma»

With this monumental video installation, Plessi established himself as one of the artists who helped visualize the connection between sculptural elements and the electronic medium of video, and also popularize this art form. His art defends a position which lies closer to Art Povera than it does to computer-based experiments, and which insists on the material laying conceptual claim to video as much as it does, for example, to marble. Staged as a monument of ancient Rome, Plessi tantalizes visitors with an illusionist rhetoric: while in reality the conveyer belt operates free of stones, in the video the stones are seen falling just the same, which leads to creating here an eternal cycle.