Claudio Marcotulli
Born 1966, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Miami, FL.
Sea Show
Sea Show appears as a colorful light sculpture installed on the wall, but the piece suddenly begins to morph, captivating the viewer with mixing patterns and images using a concealed TV monitor in its center. The artwork borrows its name from the popular annual event Air & Sea Show, giving it a whimsical spin and posing critical questions around the environment’s role in our lives and our voracious consumption of it.
Initially trained as an Aeronautical Engineer, Claudio Marcotulli’s work investigates technology and nature by illuminating existential questions around these subjects. His projects range from sculpture and performance installations to film and digital imagery that often reference memory, natural elements, and issues of climate change with a surrealistic and existential approach.
Spectrum Collider
Spectrum Collider is a biconical light sculpture partly inspired by the mechanics of a collider– an accelerator used in particle physics research in which two beams of particles are made to collide. Resembling an eye, its center holds its collision point, radiating a warm light, while the sides beam pixelated light prisms.
This piece not only alludes to physical processes, but also to celestial phenomena and the themes of human evolution, existentialism and technology present in one of Claudio Marcotulli’s favorite films ‘2001: Space Odyssey’. Initially trained as an Aeronautical Engineer, Marcotulli’s work investigates technology and nature by illuminating existential questions around these subjects.
His projects range from sculpture and performance installations to film and digital imagery that often reference memory, natural elements, and issues of climate change with a surrealistic and existential approach.
His projects range from sculpture and performance installations to film and digital imagery that often reference memory, natural elements, and issues of climate change with a surrealistic and existential approach.