Marco Brambilla

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Marco Brambilla
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Born (1960-11-30) 30 November 1960 (age 60)
Milan, Italy
OccupationVideo Artist
Websitemarcobrambilla.com

Marco Brambilla (30 November 1960) is an Italian-born Canadian film director and video artist.

His work is in the collections of the MoMA, New York ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Metronóm Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barcelona, Spain and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Notable shows include New Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Seoul Biennial, Korea; Broad Art Museum; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. [1]

Career[]

Brambilla made his directorial debut with the futuristic action film Demolition Man, premiered October 8th 1993, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock.[2] The film debuted at No. 1 at the box office.[3][4][5] and grossed $58,055,768 by the end of its box office run in North America and $159,055,768 worldwide.[6]

His short film Sync (2005) was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival[7] as part of film anthology Destricted. Sync is Brambilla’s first sampled video work and is a reflection of the rising threshold to graphic sex and brutality in contemporary popular culture and film

Brambilla's Megaplex series (Civilization, Evolution, Creation) is his first virtual reality artwork, set between the birth and death of the universe and all that pop culture created during its existence. Civilization (Megaplex) (2008) was presented at Toronto International Film Festival and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. His film Evolution (Megaplex) (2010) was part of the ‘Official Selection’ at the 68th Venice International Film Festival (2011) and the Sundance Film festival (2012). In May 2011, his first major retrospective opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.[8] The video collage works in this series have been exhibited by and are in the collections of: Fundacio Sorigue, Spain; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Metrònom Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA. The series has also presented by: SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA; New Museum, New York, USA (as part Nuit Blanche); St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA; Broad Art Museum, Lansing, USA; Santa Monica Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland; Bonniers Konnstal, Stockholm, Sweden; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; MACRO, Rome, Italy.

Brambilla has developed public art installations. In 2001, he was commissioned by Creative Time to create a project for the Times Square Jumbotron Screen. As part of the Art Production Fund, Brambilla presented his site-specific video installation Anthropocene in 2013 at Time Warner Center and Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 in 2019 at the World Trade Center station. In March 2015, he presented the video-installation Apollo XVIII[9] at Times Square with archival footage from real NASA missions and computer-generated imagery.

In 2019, Brambilla created an art-video backdrop for the opera ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ by Claude Debussy at the Opera Vlaanderen.[10] A collaborative performance piece with artists Marina Abramović, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and Iris van Herpen. Brambilla also produced the visual intermezzos for Marina Abramović's opera The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas the following year.[11]

In 2020, Brambilla created The Four Temperaments where Cate Blanchett performs four sets of distinct character types divided according to a personality classification first defined by the Greek philosopher, Galen.[12][13] During the same year, he also participated in the group-show Terminal in City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, with his video installation Approach (1999). Filmed at John F. Kennedy Airport, passengers arriving from long-haul flights enter the terminal looking for contact with someone familiar. The footage was shot on camcorders equipped with telephoto lenses and slowed down to emphasize the moment of transition that each subject experiences as they arrive. In a similar vein to Approach, Transit – a collection of photographs Brambilla took in and around airports – was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2000.[14]

On June 2021, Heaven's Gate, an exhibition of Brambilla's new video installation, opened at Pérez Art Museum Miami. A lavish, satirical and vertigo-inducing meditation on the Hollywood "Dream Factory," Heaven’s Gate is a work of digital psychedelia employing the same state-of-the-art computer compositing technology as the films it references. The title “Heaven’s Gate” refers to Michael Cimino’s 1980 film of the same name, whose excessive production costs bankrupted United Artists and effectively brought to an end the era of director as auteur, paving the way for the studio domination of the medium, which has continued to the present-day. In an essay titled Labyrinth of Labyrinths, curator and critic Daniel Birnbaum described Heaven's Gate as a continuation of Brambilla's Megaplex series of Baroque collages – a "kaleidoscopic delirium is again organized rigorously, recounting the history of the world in seven distinct chapters, '[engulfing] the viewers in imagery with a density almost impossible to sustain.'” Heaven's Gate was also screened at The Shed, Hudson Yards, New York, on May 2021.

Work[]

  • Heaven's Gate, 2021, single-channel 8K video installation
  • Creation (Megaplex) VR, 2020, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • "The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas", 2020, visual intermezzos for Marina Abramovic's opera
  • "Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)", 2019[15]
  • Nude Descending A Staircase No. 3, 2019, 3-channel high-definition video installation
  • The Master Builder, 2019, single-channel 3-D video installation
  • Lunar Atlas, 2016, multi-channel high-definition video installation
  • Crystal Observatory, 2015, high-definition video installation
  • Constellation, 2015, high-definition video projection
  • Apollo XVII, 2015,[16] 4K ultra-high definition, dual-screen video tile display in custom enclosure
  • Echo, 2014, ultra high-definition video installation
  • Anthropocene, 2013, 3-channel video installation
  • Creation (Megaplex), 2012, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Civilization (Megaplex) 3-D, 2011, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Evolution (Megaplex) 3-D, 2010, single-channel high-definition video installation. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
  • Civilization (Megaplex), 2008, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • "Power", 2010, music video performed by Kanye West. Collection Museum of Moving Image, New York
  • Cathedral, 2007, single-channel high-definition video installation
  • Sync, 2005, 3-channel video installation
  • Half-Life, 2002, 3-channel video installation
  • Wall of Death, 2001, single-channel video installation. Collection Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
  • Approach, 1999, 4-channel video installation suspended in custom enclosures with ceiling mounts. Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • Getaway, 1999, single-channel video installation
  • Cyclorama, 1999, 9-channel video installation. Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Awards and recognition[]

Brambilla received the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Award for Film and Video in 2002 and the Colbert Foundation award in 2000.[17]

Filmography[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "New Museum Worth". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  2. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  3. ^ Fox, David J. (October 12, 1993). "Weekend Box Office Stallone, Snipes: Action at Box Office". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  4. ^ Fox, David J. (October 19, 1993). "Weekend Box Office : 'Demolition Man' Fends Off 'Hillbillies'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  5. ^ Horn, John (October 15, 1993). "Demolition man' explodes into charts at no. 1". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  6. ^ "Demolition Man – Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Information". The Numbers (website). Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  7. ^ DiRosa, Joe (2006). "Marco Brambilla;– Sync". New York Artist Series. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  8. ^ "Art review: 'Marco Brambilla: The Dark Lining' at Santa Monica Museum of Art". February 2019.
  9. ^ "Apollo XVIII". Times Square Arts.
  10. ^ Parsons, Elly (January 2018). "Marco Brambilla probes NASA for an opera of intergalactic proportions".
  11. ^ Gareth, Harris (November 2020). "Marina Abramovic work to show on 'world's largest digital canvas' in London".
  12. ^ Eckardt, Stephanie (September 2020). "Watch Cate Blanchett Tell You She Loves You Over and Over Again".
  13. ^ Mizota, Sharon (September 2020). "Review: The new AR app that puts you in the room with Cate Blanchett".
  14. ^ "Transit / Marco Brambilla". TCDC Resource Center. Thailand Creative & Design Center. Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  15. ^ PARSONS, ELLY (January 2018). "Marco Brambilla probes NASA for an opera of intergalactic proportions".
  16. ^ "Apollo XVIII".
  17. ^ "Marco Bambrilla". Destricted. Revolver Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-02-03.

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