This book is made up of color photographs taken at international and domestic airports. Brambilla, who is also known as a film director, turns his lens on the "coded system" of signs, pictograms, and guide signs that permeate airports.
The inorganic corridors leading to the runway, the repetitive gate numbers, the architectural rhythms that encourage stopping and moving... What is present here is not a sense of travel, but a visual language for managing movement. This book extracts the graphic design and infrastructural details that accompany air travel, visualizing the aesthetics of transit spaces that are often overlooked.
Brambilla is known as an artist who critically addresses pop culture and visual spectacle, but in this work he takes a more serene approach, carefully exploring the tensions between order, repetition, and color that lie hidden within spaces that prioritize function, quietly bringing to light the time that exists "in between" movements.
[Title] Transit [Publisher] Booth-Clibborn Editions [Date of publication] March 15, 2000 [Number of pages] 60 pages [Size] Approx. 330*216*16mm [Format] Hardcover [Language] English [Title reading] Transit [Author/Editor, etc.] Marco Brambilla / Author Print [ISBN] 1861541244 [Condition] Used [4] Average to below average (minor scratches on the edges) [accessories] - [Featured book] - [Related Exhibitions] -
Marco Brambilla (1960-)
Born September 25, 1960 in Milan, Italy. Italian-born Canadian contemporary artist and film director. After working in Hollywood, he gained international acclaim for his video installations, which reconstruct pop culture images and existing footage. Incorporating cutting-edge technologies such as 3D video and VR, he develops works that critically interpret popular culture from the perspective of Guy Debord's concept of "spectacle."
As a feature film director, he has directed Demolition Man (1993) and Dinotopia (2002), among others. His representative art projects include the Megaplex series, which includes Civilization, Evolution, and Heaven's Gate.
His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Borusan Contemporary , Museum of the Moving Image , Fundació Metronom , Corcoran Gallery of Art , and others.
He received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (Film and Video) in 2002. Working across film and technology, he continues to question the structure of contemporary image consumption and immersive experiences.
