Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla is a Milan-born, New York City-based video collage and installation artist, known for his elaborate recontextualizations of popular and found imagery, which Vanity Fair praises as “critiques and masterpieces of visual overload.”...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionArtist
CountryItaly
advantage artist connects fit good people supporting work
Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
aware gets less life looking noticeable people projection seeing technology video
I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.
connection constant deals emotional technology work
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.
anyone artists companies mainstream outside popular products record time
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
advertising although best commercial embracing filmmaker innovative intended money requires time work
I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.
interesting controversial controversy
I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.
photography art thinking
The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.
ideas people gallery
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
opportunity artist needs
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
philosophy use honest
When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.
films huge interest
I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.
imagine politics
Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.
create opportunity project
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
behave obsessed people versus york
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.