The Italian Cultural Institute
on June 17, 2024 – 6:30 PM
host a conversation with
Marco Brambilla
and Silvia Barisione | Chief Curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU
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On the occasion of the Exhibition
Approximations of Utopia
by Marco Brambilla
June 1–30, 2024 | Nightly 11:57pm – 12am
Presented by Times Square Arts as part of the Midnight Moment program.
In partnership with Queens Museum and Artnet.
Guest Curated by Nato Thompson with Dreaming in Public
Marco Brambilla’s Approximations of Utopia presents a vision of a future world fair constructed from the archival images and AI technology, philosophically considering the nature of human hope and notions of utopia by mining the ambitions of the past. Using AI-generated and archival imagery to conjure the architectural environments of six historic World Expositions—New York (1964), Brussels (1958), Montreal (1967), Osaka (1970), Seville (1992), and Shanghai (2010).
Marco Brambilla is a London-based artist known for his elaborate recontextualization of popular and found imagery, as well as his pioneering use of digital imaging technologies in video installation and art. Brambilla’s work has been internationally exhibited and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum (New York); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ARCO Foundation (Madrid); and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C). Notable collaborations include 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, an opera by Marina Abramović first presented at the Opéra National de Paris, France; most recently, he was one of the four artists selected to present work at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
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