Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla
( Milan, Italy)
Marco Brambilla is an Italian-born Canadian director and video collage artist based in New York City. Known for his elaborate recontextualizations of popular and found imagery, which Vanity Fair has called "critiques and masterpieces of visual overload."His work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Bern, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the ARCO foundation, Madrid, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.Brambilla brought his collision of collage to the mainstream with a one-minute music video for the Kanye West song, "Power" (2010), as well as collaborations with the likes of Ferrari.His video installations have been screened at Venice Film Festival (2011) and the Sundance Film Festival (2012), and in May 2011, Brambilla's first major retrospective opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.Transit, a collection of photographs Brambilla took in and around airports, was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 2000.Brambilla lives and works in New York City.