Disable ads!

15 quotes by 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.” His work has been exhibited in major collections worldwide including the Kunsthalle Bern, The Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the ARCO foundation, Madrid, and the New Museum of...
Read full biography of Marco Brambilla →

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

0

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

0

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

0

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

0

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through... →

0

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

0

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that... →

0

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... →

0

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those... →

0

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... →

0

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.... →

0

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... →

0

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my... →

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana