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Title
Object to be Destroyed: 66 Times
Artist
Marco Brambilla
Year
2026
Medium
MP4
Dimensions
5,440 × 1,260 px
Description of Artwork
Object to Be Destroyed: 66 Times is a panoramic video installation by Marco Brambilla in which Man Ray's legendary metronome is reborn as a digital readymade — multiplying from a single object into a , swirling universe of synchronized pendulums and disembodied eyes before collapsing back into silence. Set against the transient rhythms of an airport, it transforms the space of passage into a meditation on time itself: counted, lost, and perpetually beginning again.
About the Artist
Marco Brambilla is a leading figure in contemporary video art, internationally recognized for pioneering the use of digital image-making as a medium for monumental, immersive art. Working at the intersection of cinema, advertising, technology, and fine art, Brambilla has spent decades pushing moving image beyond the screen—transforming it into large-scale, spatial experiences that reimagine how images are produced, assembled, and experienced.
Long before the current explosion of AI-generated imagery, Brambilla was experimenting with digital compositing and computational image-making to create densely layered worlds from thousands of fragments of popular culture. His signature approach—appropriating and re-contextualizing archival and cinematic imagery into elaborate, often satirical spectacles—turns the visual language of mass culture back on itself, exploring themes of desire, excess, technology, power, and contemporary spectacle.
