In Fabrizio Plessi’s work, “The Soul of a Stone”, Plessi combined the past and the present with help of modern technology. Based on the Pushkin Museum’s Tsvetaev Collection, the artist reimagined his video sculpture “The Soul of a Stone”, including casts from the collection. Plessi intervention in the museum’s classical body of work unites contemporary artistic methods with classical materials. The catalogue of Moscow exhibitions continued its theme of unity of the classic and the contemporary: the catalogue texts, written by both Italian and Russian researchers, raise questions as to how art of the past informs contemporary art, and how contemporary art is connected to art of eras past.

Fabrizio Plessi is an artist, teacher, set designer, and pioneer of Italian media art. He has participated frequently in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta. Plessi’s personal exhibitions have been organized by The Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and the Museum of Art History (Kunshtistorisches) in Vienna. His large-scale exhibition “Vertical Seas” was presented at the newly reopened Venice Pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2011.

For his installations, Plessi has used spaces on St. Mark square in Venice, in The Valley of the Temples in Argigento, at the Silk Exchange in Palma de Mallorca, in the Hall of Giants in the Palazzo del Te in Mantu, and at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 2013, not far from the Brenner Pass in the Alps, the Plessi Museum opened--a futuristic pet project conceived as an all-embracing art form in which architecture, sculpture, and design are harmoniously integrated into the surrounding environment.

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