Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau

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SITElab 1 Marco Brambilla Megaplex
Sat, Jun 8 2013, 10:00 - 5:00 PM
Italian-born, New York-based artist Marco Brambilla creates complex video works that recontextualize and collage found popular imagery. SITE is pleased to premier Brambilla’s recently-completed series entitled Megaplex, a tour-de-force trilogy of 3D video collages. Each piece in Brambilla’s stunning series--including Civilization (Megaplex) (2008), Evolution (Megaplex) (2010), and Creation (Megaplex) (2012)--is a spectacle of hundreds of clips from a vast archive of iconic films. In each video, Brambilla takes the viewer on a spiraling, mesmerizing journey of computer-altered found footage sampled from both mainstream and obscure films. Each part of Brambilla’s Megaplex series will be screened on different days--visit our website for a full Megaplex screening schedule.



IMAGE: Creation (Megaplex), 2012
3D High-definition video, color, sound, 4 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica

This exhibition runs through June 30, 2013.

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Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Pearl
Fri, Jul 12 11:59 PM thru Mon, Oct 14 2013, 11:59 PM
In the Summer of 2013, SITE will present a new project by Enrique Martínez Celaya (b. 1964) entitled The Pearl. For this exhibition, Martínez Celaya transforms all 15,000 square feet of SITE's gallery space into an immersive installation environment that includes several large and small-scale paintings, sculptures, video, waterworks and olfactory interventions. This exhibition integrates many of the elements and ideas that the artist has engaged with over the last several years. For this project, the artist takes the notion of home as both a point of departure and a destination to craft a multi-sensory experience that is an extended metaphor for a journey of emotional and psychological reflection. Visitors will experience the installation in a specific sequence that allows the multilevel narrative to unfold. This installation will be accompanied by an exhibition of preparatory drawings. The artist is also collaborating with Santa Fe-based Radius Books to produce an artist book related to the exhibition. Martínez Celaya's interdisciplinary practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and writing, is influenced by a wide array of interests including Nordic poetry, samurai mores, quantum physics, the emotional mechanisms of kitsch, analytic and continental philosophy, Latin American literature, and everyday life. Martínez Celaya begins with the autobiographical to explore the universal. His figures and landscapes may draw from specific references from his own life, but these morph into archetype-like symbols alluding to larger existential concerns of being and consciousness, memory, exile, birth, death and coming of age, among others. The resultant works are engaging yet enigmatic, and evidence a deep engagement with the aesthetics of Romanticism.

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Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Pearl
Fri, Jul 12 2013, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Martínez Celaya’s interdisciplinary practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and writing, is influenced by a wide array of interests including Nordic poetry, samurai mores, quantum physics, the emotional mechanisms of kitsch, analytic and continental philosophy, Latin American literature and everyday life. Martínez Celaya begins with the autobiographical to explore the universal. His figures and landscapes may draw from specific references from his own life, but these morph into archetype-like symbols alluding to larger existential concerns of being and consciousness, memory, exile, birth, death and coming of age, among others. The resultant works are engaging yet enigmatic, and evidence a deep engagement with the aesthetics of Romanticism.

Enrique Martínez Celaya
July 13 – October 13, 2013
Members’ Preview: Wednesday July 10
Public opening: Friday July 12

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