Morando Morandini Text (1 results)
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Published by Mastrogiacomo Editore, Padova 1983
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Square quarto, 60 pages printed on blue and pink and cream stock. Illustrated wrappers. - First edition. 'Underwater' (the movie) was produced by 'Faits Divers System' and presented at the 'Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia in 1982' 'Underwater' is a compilation of the 'twelve…movies' of which the titles are: Water Colour, Water Man, Hard Water, Water Wind, Hollywater, Double Movie, Wipers, Wreck, Water/Fire, Liquid Movie, Dirty Movie, Water Art. Each of these titles are presented in this artists' book with a short text and 4 illustrations. "… Under the sign of diversity within unity, the twelve "movies" of Underwater - musically, could one call them variations? - summarize Plessi's work on the image and on water which, for some years now, he has been expressing with video and electronics. Starting with design and painting, Plessi, a visual artist, has experimented many languages: photography, collage, cinema, performance, video-installations. The languages (instruments) change but, together with thematic continuity, Plessi's work possesses another common denominator: fun. Whatever he does, Plessi always gives the impression that he is enjoying himself. He is light, relaxed, agile, elastic, fluid. He is liquid if one wanted to attach the connotation of "masculine" to the concept of rigidity and "feminine" to its opposite, one could say that Plessi's art is feminine and obeys a beautiful maxim by Hugo von Hoffmanstahl: "Depth must be concealed. Where? On the surface." To Plessi video is, as the French say, "la vidéo". Of feminine gender, like water. …" Morando Morandini added: an original black and white silver print of 'spugna d'emergenza in caso di alta marea" (emergency sponge in case of high tide) with on the rear a stamp from the Vinciana gallery, Milano.
