Fabrizio Plessi was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 1940. Not much is available about his history. He studied at the Accademia delle belle Arti, Venice. Since 1990 he has taught at the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne. He lives in Venice, Cologne and on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

Plessi creates artificial nature. He combines video, sound, and texture into a physical medium.

        Heinrich Klotz, Director, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie -

   Of the important contemporary media artists, Fabrizio Plessi knows like no other how to hover between semblance and reality. The avant-garde of Modern art claimed that art and life - and thus simulation and being - were identical. They believed that the progress of art consisted in art's trespassing into life. For Plessi, no: he drives fiction into reality in order to stop almost immediately in the act of overturning the real; he fixes the fiction while it is still a semblance, and brings it into dramatic contact with reality. This balance between believe-it's-the-truth and the truth of reality, this strained relation between semblance and being, consititutes the terrain in which poetry, as well as fiction, are born.