Angelo Plessas
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Angelo Plessas is an artist of Greek-Italian descent. He lives and works between NYC and Athens.
He is part of a new generation of artists that use the internet as their canvas. He combines animations with domain names to create websites. These websites are usually flash animations of strangeness, poetry and abstract feelings. Sometimes he is inspired by portraits and faces and some other times by the feminine or vintage aesthetic.Plessas uses websites where we can imagine meaning and experience objects, the same way we can admire a sunset or a sculpture in a public square.Since 2001 he is a basic member of the art movement Neen.
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"The idea of the domain name and animation creates a contemporary miracle: An electronic artwork that can simultaneously exist on thousands of computers at the same time, visible from every place on the planet, yet the piece is a unique object which can never be copied, because it exists in only one location, the domain name. A piece that is on a .com location will never be the same on .Net or .Org. The collector that buys a website owns a unique piece of art which also has certificate of authenticity." [citation needed]
[edit] Selected Exhibitions
- 2006, Anathena, curated by Marina Fokides and Marina Giotis, Deste Foundation Athens, Greece
- 2006, The grande promenade, curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- 2006, A show with Andreas Angelidakis and Miltos Manetas, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece, May 2006
- 2006, Neen Demo, Benaki Museum, Athens
- 2006, Superneen, curated by Miltos Manetas, Milan, Italy
- 2005, Bienal de Valencia, curated by Franck Gautherot and Seung-duk Kim, Spain
- 2005, Neen Season, Sketch, curated by Alexander Pollazon, London
- 2004, NeenToday, MU art foundation, eindhoven, commisioned by Ton van Gool, the netherlands
- 2003, Very Upset with You, electronic orphanage, Los Angeles
- 2003, Tirana Biennial, Tirana Albania
- 2002, Afterneen, casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2002, WhitneyBiennial.com, New York
- 2001, biennale.net, deitch projects, New York
[edit] Further reading
- The Anathena fanzine, Edited by Angelo Plessas, (Angelo Says editions by CafePress.com)[2006]
- NEEN Edited by Miltos Manetas(Editions Charta) [2006]
- Angelo Plessas 2001-2003 published by One Star Press [2003]
