Christopher Grimes Gallery
916 Colorado Ave
310.587.3373
This event has passed.
-
Marco Brambilla, Civilization (Megaplex), 2008
- When
-
Oct 18, 2008 – Nov 22, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–5:30pm)
- Where
-
- Price
- Links
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled film footage into looped digital audio/video projects dubbed "video murals." Taking on the hypocritical link between consumerism and religiosity in Civilization, Brambilla portrays a journey between Heaven and Hell through floating gods and futuristic architecture, nature and urban blight, mountain passes and muscle pageants. Cathedral, which takes place at a mall, has rougher and more ambient audio, exploiting a conversational buzzing that reinforces the hive/mall metaphor; at the same time, it's both hypnotic and charming, synching well with its multi-frame, kaleidoscopic, insect-eye perspective.
