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 ALCHIMIA GALLEGGIANTE, BIENAL DE PORTO ALEGRE BRASIL 2001. A 6 METERS PLASTIC HAND PAINTED INSTALLATION AT THE MERCOSUR BIENAL OF ART

accomplished cultural transmitter of present-day global communication. Paix, the creator of video art in 1965. He graduates in 1970 with a degree in
Today´s art, transformed into the vector of communication, must face an Electronic Communication, and until 1990 continues to perfect himself in
essential challenge: to retain its function as a humanistic representative, in Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and Milan in the following fields: architecture
order to preserve the normalcy of the new human condition in the midst of and urban design, audiovisual communication, theatre, cinema, video and
its hybrid existential situation wavering between the real and the virtual. computer graphics, multimedia and virtual reality. Simultaneously, Pla
In this multimedia and cosmopolitan climate that today’s art distils, the undertakes a career that enables him to organize cultural manifestations in
versatile personality of the Italian-Argentine artist Eduardo Pla stands out. various sectors, and produces an abundant number of films, videos and
In an exemplary manner, we could say that he perfectly represents the computer graphics. Between 1970 and 1978 he achieves numerous shorts,
model of the present-day artist in the realm of audiovisual communication. medium and full-lengths that are either documentaries ( Up Art, Pop Art,
Born in Buenos Aires in 1952, he is twenty years younger than Nam June Images of Buenos Aires) or fiction ( Alice in Wonderland). “Mid-summer

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