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October 19, 2006- November 25, 2006
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Marco Brambilla
Cohan and Leslie
138 10th AveWe are pleased to announce Marco Brambilla’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, presenting the New York debut of a three-channel video installation called Sync.
Sync (2005) is entirely comprised of sampled images, some as short as single frames, both from mainstream film and pornography. Each of the three projections is organized around a different theme: fights, sex and theatre audiences. All three screens progress at a rate of several shots per second, resulting in a violent, almost hysterical barrage of information on the viewer, heightened by a syncopated percussion-based sound track that drives the pace even harder. By eliminating the original continuity and narrative in the source material, Brambilla achieves a new visual choreography.
Brambilla emphasizes the formulaic and derivative constructs of the way sex and violence are portrayed by Hollywood, and interpreted by audiences. Over time, this sensory overload leads to an increasing tolerance for, and resistance to graphic sex and brutality, both in the movies and in the news media in general.
Sync also highlights the controversial issues in and around the representation of sexuality in art, opening up for debate the question of whether art can be disguised as pornography, or vice-versa, and leaves the viewer free to choose his or her own path through these intersections of art and sexuality.
Also on view will be Sea of Tranquility (2006), a single channel video projection that re-imagines the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon’s surface in 1969.
Brambilla’s work was recently on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sync has been screened at the Tate Modern, London, in addition to the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals.
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