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LYAM 3D

Object Details

Exhibition Label
Kota Ezawa samples imagery from a broad range of sources, including news media, popular cinema, and the history of art, which he then distills into flattened landscapes of pure form. LYAM 3D refigures Alain Resnais's French New Wave film, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad), released in 1961. Here, the animated actors are divorced from texture and the camera's presence is replaced by Ezawa's hand, rendering only the essential shapes. Resnais's cinematic masterpiece is stripped clean of any romance or narrative arc, but Ezawa adds the American "oomph of 3D," updating it for a contemporary audience.
Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist
Kota Ezawa, born Cologne, Germany 1969
Date
2008
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds
Copyright
© 2008, Kota Ezawa
Medium
digital animation, color, silent; 04:00 minutes
Type
Media Arts

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