NUMBER ZERO OF THE 100 PLEXUS CAMPBOLL'S SOUP CANS LIMITED EDITIONS

After 37 years, since when in 1988 I conceived the 100 Plexus labels,

I placed myself inside of the number zero of my 100 Plexus Camboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions, only by Art Love, as a birthday homage, for Glaucia Coelho DemenjourIn the number zero for Glaucia Coelho Demenjour.

 In August 2025, I placed myself  inside the number zero of the 100 Plexus Campboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions, watching myself, subject and object at the same time. as  a vivisected body of art. 

I packaged my zero number Can inside a wicker basket handmade by Fabrizio Perini,  the basket maker of Sorano, Tuscany Maremma, where it is now located Plexus International Archives. I was inspired by my 1993 NYU course on "Living Traditions in Arts" by prof. David W. Ecker.

What does a

the zero number Plexus Campboll’s Soup Can contain?

Plexus Interpretation is not static.  It is formed by the momentum of the rhythm of our experience and of its correlations. Each reader has his/her own angle of interpretation depending upon his/her personality, education, and culture. No method can transcend the interpreter's own historicity.  The content of a Plexus Campboll's Soup Can changes from Can to Can. 

On the internal side of the number zero Plexus Can, I glued one cent coin, painted in yellow, as money art, glued next to the cover of the 1987 Dematerialization of Art Symposium at New York University.  Next I glued a collage of a middle ages vivisected body of an alive prisoner opened by the medical school, with different faces of myself watching the opening.

 Inside the can, on the bottom,  I placed an original 1981 photo of me made by Lynne Kanter, as my ZERO  1981 TIME CAPSULE

 In 1981,  I created  the Center for Italian Contemporary Culture of the New York University. As executive director, I organized the programme "THE ARTIST IN THE FIRST PERSON", with Italian independent artists, managening their own presentations.

 After, in 1982/83 I opened Plexus International performace space, in Chelsea.

Then, 1984 I was forced to close the Plexus performance space and I opened the Shuttle Theatre/Lab in the Lower East Side. 

Then Plexus art journey departed and...... I am still  traveling on board. 

I started to fill my zero number with the Plexus history, from where they come, in which I WAS in the first person living the experience, in which I AM right now, and in which  I WILL BE forever, an insider as well as an outsider.

EATING THE HISTORY OF PLEXUS ART JOURNEY 1982-2024

I metaphorically placed as ingredients my 

 PHD NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AESTETIC INQUIRY INTO THE PLEXUS BLACK BOX

I am still facing the challenge in progress of filling the number 1 of my 100 Plexus Campboll's Soup Cans Limited Editions,

as an original intentional contemporary artist attempt , with the ambition to have a long shelf life in contemporary art history.