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PLEXUS is still an unexamined part of the contemporary art history.

It would be very difficult to label Plexus

under existing art definitions  

because, Plexus continues to resist against any category of art.

 

 

PLEXUS INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL ARCHIVES HAS MOVED FROM ROME TO SORANO

 

Sandro Dernini e Fabrizio Bertuccioli, San Quirico (Sorano) 2024

 

DISCOVERY PLEXUS PLANETS 

 

THE PLEXUS STORY FROM 1982 TO 2025, WITH A SHORT PRE-HISTORY

 

DEMATERIALIZATION OF REALITY

 

PLEXUS NON LINEAR VISION

 

 

 

 TIME IS CHANGED!! IS ONLY A RIDDLE OF GRAVITATION 

BY OUR MIND PAST- PRESENT-FUTURE CONSTRUCTS 

  

 

 

  

 

PLEXUS BLACK BOX, Ph.D. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY by  SANDRO DERNINI, 1997

ART IS MAGIC  A CHANGE IN PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS

 PLEXUS KRE MBAYE ATERLIER D'ART POUR LES ENFANTS MEDINA-DAKAR

23 February 2026, ATELIER D'ART KRE MBAYE POUR L'ENFANTS, MEDINA DAKAR, RAMADAN KARIN,  DISTRIBUTION NDOGOU, RUE 17 X 8, MEDINA

 

Presentation par Fatoumata Coulibaly, presidente, Association Atelier d'Art Kre Mbaye pour les Enfants, avec Alain Coulibaly

Plexus International Appel pour l'Atelier d'Art Kre MBaye pour les Enfants de la Medina, lancé en 2018 dans l'événement Plexus, Le Pappillon Return de l'Art dans la Communitè, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

On November 13-20, 1996, the special event

From Welfare to Well Being:  Eating Art,  Get the Best From Your Food,  Food for All, on the occasion of the First World Food Summit organized by FAO United Nations Organization , was staged i at the Roof Garden of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome. From there, Plexus launched an Open Call for a World Art Bank, in Goree-Dakar, Against Any Slavery In Order To Survive, addressed to support nutritional education projects in the most disavantaged communities, starting from the Medina of Dakar.

 

THE MONEY OF ART BELONGS TO THE ARTISTS AS THE PRODUCERS AND THE FINAL PRODUCT

 

1996 PLEXUS OPEN CALL FOR A WORLD ART BANK AGAINST ANY FORM OF SLAVERY, PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI, ROME

 

 

ART IS NOT AN OPTIONAL

EATING ART IS A BIOLOGICAL NEED FOR OUR EVOLUTION. 23S BLOG 8.12.2025

     

 

 

DO YOU THINK THAT IS IT POSSIBLE TO EAT AND DIGEST ANDY WARHOL DEMATERIALIZED INTO A PLEXUS CAMPBOLL'S SOUP CAN?. 23s BLOG, 18.11.2025

 

 

On February 27, 1986, in New York, in the Lower East Side, at the Cultural Civic Centre C.U.A.N.D.O. (Culturas Unidas Aspireran Nuestro Destinos Original) , Plexus staged its Art Opera 3, “Eve: Escape for Donna Purgatorio from 1986 Anno Domini by the Multinational Chain Gang of Dowtown New York”, created and produced collectively by 220 artists together.  Rife with symbolism, the story line of EVE art opera was about the journey of an art slave ship, on its travel through art history, escaping from the contemporary New York artworld.

It was only one hour spectacular event for the public, built for a week through an atelier des arts, performed by a cast of musicians, poets, actors, dancers, videomakers, performers and visual artists, featuring many prominent figures on the N.Y. downtown avant-garde scene, on board a metaphoric art slaves boat.

Plexus Art Opera n.3 "Eve, escaper for Donna Purgatorius from Anno Domini", 1986, Cultural Civic Centre CUANDO, Lower East Side, New York

Artwork by David Mora Catlett, New York, 1986

 

Named it as "Art Slaverism" by Sandro Dernini

 

 

On June 30, 1987 in Rome, at the Theatre in Trastevere, an old L.I.A.C.A. place, it was held the press conference to present the Plexus art co-opera ", as the first international art slave market show in modern art history, to be staged, in Sardinia, at the megalithic sanctuary of Sa Itria in Gavoi, from 1 to 4 July, 1987.

After the press conference a Plexus happening was performed in the streets of Trastevere as a recall of the 1978 

L.I.A.C.A. (Lega Italiana Associazioni Culturali Alternative) cultural slaves market happening held in Rome the freedom of expression and association in Italy.

Il Serpente di Pietra, with more 160 artists as art slaves coming from 23 different countries, 

was a four days of art and science, connected via the bitnet academic computer network, before that Internet existed, coordinated by the Bruce Breland and Robert Dunn of the Dax Group of Carnegie Mellon University with Franco Meloni of the University of Cagliari.  It was dedicated to the Heinrich Hertz’s  100 years electromagnetic celebration for Freedom in Art and Communication.

 

PLEXUS ART CO-OPERA 4 IL SERPENTE DI PIETRA, Gavoi, Sardinia, 1987

Passport for Plexus Serpent, from Purgatorio to Paradise,  Gavoi, Sardinia, 1987

On May 21, 1988, the Plexus Open Call Art Slavery Photo Shot Manifesto, as a multi-fractal 900 artists faces photo,was launched from the Rivington School, Lower East Side NY.  freedom of art. 

Rivington School was a radical art urban project, founded by Ray Kelly as a workshop of metal sculptors, with a particular style, summed up as “Dada meets Country-Western”, building a metal garden, in an empty ruined parking lot, at 172 Forsythe Street, in downtown of Manhattan.

A large number of historical Plexus participants answered to the Plexus Open Call, and on May 21, 1988, at the Rivington School’s monumental sculpture sanctuary, Ivan Dalla Tana took the first historical art group photo shoot, as ritual opening act of the Plexus Manifesto, before its International departure.

 

In Rome, on June 15, 1988, at the Metateatro, the second group shot of artists, including several historical participants of the Italian avant-garde of the 70’s and 80’s, was taken by Adriano Mordenti, in front of a large photo of the Rivington School’s event and at the center of the stage framed with boxing ring posters from a past theatre play.  

    ELISABETH BOAT, CARLOFORTE, SARDINIA           PLEXUS RECALL FRACTAL

The third historical Plexus group photo was taken, three days after, on June 18,  in Sardinia, in the harbour of Carloforte, where previous Plexus group shots from New York and Rome and Plexus Campbell’s cans, were carried by Sandro Dernini and Fabrizio Bertuccioli on board the Elisabeth boat, symbolically “dressed” as the Plexus art slave boat 

On August 26, 1988, a serpentine art procession parade of hundreds participants, performing ritually the exile to Gabon of Cheik Amoudou Bamba, theatrically directed by Omar Seck of the National Theatre Sorano,  moved from the studio of Kre MBaye, at rue 17 angle 8, inthe Medina, going through the streets to Dakar harbour the take the ferryboat for the island of Goree.

At the conclusion of the parade, Sandro presented the Plexus International Open Call Against Art Slavery Manifesto  to the representative of the Mayor  together with the proposal to open a World Art Bank in Goree,  against any kind of slavery.  A large group photo shot, made inside the House of the Slaves on the stairs of “the door of no return,” ended the Plexus event.

 

PLEXUS wave of transformations ...

A dip in Plexus , aaaa ! Bruuu ! Humm ! Laugh ! I look around, return to the shore, a glance, and I dip  back , picked up by a wave that makes you bump into its current strong, weak , which is transforming itself and, then it calms ,  I profit!  ascend to the surface, a little ' breathing air , the head turns and re-turns , my eyes are toward the horizon and surroundings, see the others , thankfully, I am not alone !

PLEXUS onde di trasformazioni…

 Un tuffo in Plexus, aaaa!bruuu!humm!rido!mi guardo intorno, ritorno sulla riva, un sguardo e, mi rituffo, ripresa da una ondata che ti fa sbattere contro la sua corrente forte, debole, che si trasforma e, poi si calma, profitto!salgo a galla un po’ d’aria respiro, la testa si gira e si rigira, lo sguardo è verso l’orizzonte e dintorno, si vedono gli altri, per fortuna, non sono sola! 

Glaucia Coelho Demenjour, Rio de Janeiro, 2011