For the first time in the former Church of St. Agnes in Padua on display the gold works of Fabrizio Plessi

From April 6 to October 13, 2024, Fabrizio Plessi will be the protagonist of the exhibition that occupies the spaces of the former Church of Sant’Agnese in Padua for the first time , resuming Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo’s never-ending dialogue with a great master of contemporary art. It is NERO ORO, a monographic exhibition curated by Roberto Caldura.

The NERO ORO project presents three distinct moments in the three main areas of the 12th-century building: in the Nave, a gold mosaic-like work dialogues with the 14th-century fresco fragments found during restoration and still visible in the former church. In the Hypogeum, where archaeological finds are on display, a flow of gold seems to invade the remains of a Roman road still visible; in the Sacristy, more than 100 drawings narrate the evolution of the theme of Gold in Plessi’s art. Gold, with its precious essence, blends tradition and innovation, classicism and technology, and in dialogue with black represents an alchemical process that symbolizes the passage from night to day, from raw material to maximum human expression. NERO ORO includes site-specific interventions, designed to interact with the history of Sant’Agnese, rich in memory and stratification, which dovetails well with the concept of the Golden Age that has long been central to the artist’s work. The project intends to synthesize decades of creation dedicated by Plessi to the primary elements ofWater, Earth, Fire andAir, now arriving at the essential elements of Gold and Black, which give life to works that, in dialogue with spaces, know how to constantly renew themselves.

After Mari Verticali presented in 2011 at the Venice Pavilion of the Biennale Giardini , Liquid Life. Liquid Light at the 2015 Art Biennale, and L’Anima di Pietra in 2018 at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, once again Padua and the Foundation, on the occasion of the 60th Venice Art Biennale, pay tribute to a great Venetian artist by adoption, who turns 84 in those same days.

Fabrizio Plessi, The Golden Age (2020-2023; graphite and markers on paper)

For the first time in the former Church of St. Agnes in Padua on display the gold works of Fabrizio Plessi

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