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MARCO BRAMBILLA
Maison Margiela x Marco Brambilla:
‘Nude Descending a Staircase No.3’
Brambilla’s artwork is a contemporary digital reinvention of Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 masterpiece, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
Brambilla has transformed Duchamp’s original static painting into a monumental moving panorama, complete with a haunting piano score, depicting multiple 3D animated figures cascading down infinite, invisible stairs. The piece pays homage to the deconstructed image and advances the classical into the contemporary.
Guests who enter the store on Crosby St. have the chance to see Brambilla’s first indoor installation. The videos are presented asynchronously to one another, just as technology disrupts our lives, for better or worse.
It’s not the first time Brambilla and Margiela have teamed up. The piece was projected onto the facade of Margiela’s flagship store in the Miami Design District last December. Brambilla’s Nude Descending a Staircase No.3 is the first in a new series of artist activations coming to the store in the coming months. Visit Maison Margiela at 1 Crosby St. to see the installation on display now through July 6.
“Duchamp was inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photography of subjects in motion to make the cubist masterpiece. This captured my imagination, since he was painting a subject while referring to a highly-technological medium at the time. My use of technology and connecting these techniques to Art history are central to my work. The ‘deconstruction’ of the human figure in the original painting inspired both myself and Galliano.”
MARCO BRAMBILLA
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