Cyclorama, 1999

Nine-channel video installation
Color, sound
3:20 min.

Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions

The Art of Design: Selections from the SF MoMA Collection, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005
Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York [curated by Kenny Schachter], 1999

Filmed in 35mm at nine revolving restaurants across North America—including ones in Seattle, Las Vegas, St. Louis, and New York—Cyclorama presents nine panoramas side by side in a cylindrical enclosure that mimics the restaurants’ architecture, creating the sense of one continuous, moving landscape. The sun rises at the same moment on each screen, erasing time zones and providing a 360-degree view of the Western horizon.

Reviews

Barry Schwabsky, ‘Media City Seoul Review’, Artforum, November 2000
Fred Bernstein, ‘Cyclorama’, Arena, June 2000
Marisa Olsen, ‘Marco Brambilla Profile’, Surface, March/April 2000
‘Paradise 8’, The New Yorker, March 8, 2000



Cyclorama, 1999. Installation view Exit Art, New York, 1999


Cyclorama, 1999 (excerpt)


Montreal: Centre De Ville Restaurant (Eastern Standard Time 45º 30’ N / 73º 36’W)


Toronto: 360 Restaurant (Eastern Standard Time 43º 42’ N / 79º 25’ W)


New York City: The View Lounge (Eastern Standard Time 40° 43’ N / 74° 00’ W)


New Orleans: Club 360 Restaurant (Central Standard Time 30° 00’N / 90° 03’ W)


St. Louis: Top of the Riverfront Restaurant (Central Standard Time 38° 30’ N / 73° 36’ W)


Dallas: Antares Restaurant (Central Standard Time 32° 47’ N / 96° 48’ W)


Las Vegas: Top of the World Restaurant (Pacific Standard Time 36° 10’ N / 115° 10’ W)


Los Angeles: The BonaVista Lounge (Pacific Standard Time 34° 00’ N / 118° 15’ W)


Seattle: Sky City Restaurant (Pacific Standard Time 47° 35’ N / 122° 20’ W)


Cyclorama, 1999. Production Still


Cyclorama, 1999. Production Still


Cyclorama, 1999. Installation view San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005