Angelo Plessas | Every website is a monument

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ANGELO PLESSAS, “Every website is a monument” Friday 14 January - Thursday 10 March 2011 Opening Reception: Friday 14 January, 2011 - from 7pm to 9pm Gloria Maria Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo Italian exhibition of Greek artist Angelo Plessas. In his work Plessas combines animated drawings with domain names to create websites. He treats websites as places where we can imagine and experience objects, the same way we can admire a sculpture in a public space. This becomes particularly urgent at a time when we live part of our lives online, questioning and often blurring what is private and what is public. So visiting a website becomes as public as visiting a traditional monument. At the same time the artist is fascinated with traditional monuments because they engage us with symbols of nostalgic tension. In this way websites suggest a new kind of monumentality where notions of classical time and space are being questioned. "Every website is a monument" is a project consisting in an participatory website installation, a street sign, a monument and some postacrds. In the gallery a big sign will be installed and one of the artistʼs website will be projected on it. This big sign will became a screen for the projection of a monument, making us think about the theme of what is real, what is proposed, what is a real proposal or a fake projection. The installation features also a series of postcards, created with stills from Google Maps Street Views, which show some locations in the city of Milan and associated virtual “offline” monuments, that represent a threedimensional and sculptural versions of Plessasʼ websites. The gallery itself becomes a sort of virtual location, such as a computer does. Angelo Plessas' website AllDayDoingNothing.com will be hosted and projected, from the 1st to the 13th of February 2011, on the external wall of the Triennale Bovisaʼs forecourt, in via Lambruschini 31. For further information please contact the gallery: pr@gloriamariagallery.com Special thanks to: Arte da Mangiare and Centro Ellenico di Cultura for the Patronage Angelidakis Architecture Studio for the collaboration NABA Scuola di Media Design e Arti Multimediali for the collaboration Triennale Bovisa for the kind hospitality

Gloria Maria Gallery Via Watt 32 20143 Milano T +39 02 8708 8548 www.gloriamariagallery.com


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