Fabrizio Plessi signs the 2023-2024 curtain for Bologna's Duse Theater

An auteur curtain for the 2023/2024 season of Bologna’s Teatro Duse . It bears the signature of Fabrizio Plessi (Reggio Emilia, 1940) the work Energy, a special blue velvet curtain with continuously moving luminous LEDs embedded within it, with strong allusive sounds that refer to an absurd and metaphysical thunderstorm, which will accompany the Bologna theater season throughout the year.

This work, which can be considered the world’s first and only digital curtain, is part of the Tuscany Hall theater’s collection of Sipari d’autore in Florence, and will be on view to Duse spectators from Nov. 27, 2023 to May 19, 2024. Energy is the fifth artist’s curtain to land at the Duse. The historic stage on Via Cartoleria has, in fact, already welcomed and exhibited Carla Accardi’s curtain in the 2017/2018 Season, Aldo Mondino’s in the 2018/2019 Season, Luigi Mainolfi’s work in the 2019/2020 Season, and Nicola De Maria’s curtain last season.

The entire Tuscany Hall collection, created in 2005, consists of eight curtains created by as many major authors of contemporary Italian art. Specifically, these are Applausi by Aldo Mondino (2005), Sipario rossooro by Carla Accardi (2007), Permutabile negativopositivo by Getulio Alviani (2010), Attori by Mimmo Paladino (2012), Musica colorata dai sogni by Nicola De Maria (2015), Pittura R. - 101 Elementi.I by Pino Pinelli (2016), Bestiario del firmamento by Luigi Mainolfi (2018) and, indeed, Energy by Fabrizio Plessi (2020).

Fabrizio Plessi (Reggio Emilia, 1940) is among the most internationally known and appreciated Italian artists. A pioneer of video installations who has always been close to the theme of water, he also has a privileged relationship with theater, for which he has created many sets. The artist has participated in 14 editions of the Venice Biennale, exhibited worldwide (more than 500 solo shows) from the Guggenheim in New York to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His electronic sets created for Luciano Pavarotti’s concert in New York’s Central Park in 1993 are unforgettable. Since 2013 the Plessi Museum, at the Brenner Pass, has hosted a permanent exhibition dedicated to his art; it is the first Italian example of a museum space on a highway.

Plessi has always believed in technologies and taught Humanization of Technologies, for ten years, at the University of Cologne. In his works we find, not surprisingly, the need to combine technological experimentation with the use of natural materials such as iron, wood, and marble to give life to a personal poetic narrative that holds past and future together.

Fabrizio Plessi signs the 2023-2024 curtain for Bologna's Duse Theater

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