Fabrizio Plessi’s installation lights up the Piazza San Marco

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Dior is sponsoring an exhibit called “L’Età d’Oro,” or the Golden Age, by Fabrizio Plessi in Venice. 

Dior has collaborated with Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi to celebrate Venice’s rich cultural history as the city slowly reawakens after months of lockdown. The 80-year-old artist, Fabrizio Plessi has set up digital waterfalls of gold in the windows of the Correr Museum, which lines one side of Venice’s Piazza San Marco, facing the Basilica.

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One of the pioneers of video art in Italy, this multi-talented artist, whose work has been celebrated in the most prestigious museums, designs in-site installations alongside spectacular monuments and cultural sites. The exhibition, which runs through November 15, was conceived to bring to life the message held in the clutches of the square’s famous bronze lion sculpture—one of the most prized statues in the world and a symbol of Venice—that reads pax tibi or “peace upon thee.”

Titled The Golden Age, the piece is a prelude to the major retrospective of the artist’s work that opened in September at the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’Pasero.

The artist has shown how its possible to blend together the past and the future, creatively with technology and art.

The exhibit, originally scheduled for May, runs from Sept. 1 to Nov. 15