World Premier of Marco Brambilla’s “Heaven’s Gate” at Hudson Yards

20 Hudson Yards,New York NY 10001

05 May, 2021

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Hudson Yards will host the world preview of Marco Brambilla’s new video piece “Heaven's Gate" On Wednesday May 5th, Hudson Yards will host the world preview of Marco Brambilla’s new video piece “Heaven's Gate" which will be on display at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). This video art piece will have its premiere at 5 PM throughout the Hudson Yards campus across 65 digital screens, outdoors and indoors, in what it has poised to be an incredible immersive experience for the attending public. Showings will take place throughout 5pm - 7pm. This event is free and open to the public. "Heaven's Gate" In Marco Brambilla latest video installation, Heaven’s Gate we levitate through a panoramic landscape of sampled film clips from movies both obscure and familiar collaged into an elaborate digital canvas. The collage speaks the language of the Hollywood ‘Dream Factory’; a glossy reflection of humanity’s perpetual quest for the ultimate fantasy. Its visual melodrama mimicking the silver screen spectacles once produced by Walt Disney and Cecile B. DeMille, Heaven’s Gate is a video monument to Hollywood’s veneration of glamour while retelling the history of the world in seven distinct phases. Employing spectacle to describe a familiar and universal story, the digitally assembled images generate a hyper-realistic landscape of clouds, meadows and cityscapes, against which humanity oscillates between enlightenment and production. With each cycle and succeeding level of the work, Heaven’s Gate engulfs the viewer in a level of density in imagery almost impossible to sustain. Marco Brambilla Marco Brambilla is a media artist living and working in London. In his art Marco engages with both art history and the spectacle of pop culture and technology across a variety of visual and electronic media. His pioneering use of imaging and 3D technologies has led to numerous collaborations with NASA, Marina Abramovic and Kanye West. Brambilla’s work has been internationally exhibited and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ARCO Foundation and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Notable shows include New Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art (Retrospective); Seoul Biennial, Korea; Broad Art Museum; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. His work has also been screened at the Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festivals, as well as Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. Brambilla is a recipient of the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Tiffany Colbert Foundation awards. PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 36-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.