theriseandfalloftheberlinwall
Kota Ezawa
Beckers+Kornfeld, Frankfurt-Berlin
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Première
- Title
- theriseandfalloftheberlinwall
- Gallery
- Beckers+Kornfeld, Frankfurt-Berlin
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 2 min 36 s
‘theriseandfalloftheberlinwall’ is a two and half minute animation depicting the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and 1989 respectively. Rendered in monochromatic shapes of color the video transforms the original footage into an animated color field painting and into an abstraction of the original events. The soundtrack features a string version of the German national anthem (Joseph Haydn, Opus 76 No. 3) and an ambient remix of Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1′, thereby creating a sonic juxtaposition that goes along with the shift between black and white and color images of the rise and fall of the wall.
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Kota Ezawa
- Artist
1969, Cologne
Kota Ezawa lives and works in Oakland, CA. He studied from 1990 to 1994 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik and the from 1994 San Francisco Art Institute.
Described by the artist himself as “moving paintings,” Ezawa’s work serves as a conduit of an event for history, translating it into personal memories and experiences. His work has the ability to transcend the specificity of the image into a more universal realm by reducing the forms and content to their most basic elements.
His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe (2017); Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012) and the St. Louis Art Museum (2008). In 2019, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and in 2017, he was featured in the traveling exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
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Beckers+Kornfeld
- Address
- Frankfurt-Berlin
Beckers+Kornfeld is a new collaborative gallery between Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt and Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin. The newly incorporated gallery will continue to operate in those two locations. The aim of the gallery is the development and promotion of young and established contemporary artists, alongside rediscovered art pioneers. The emphasis is on the dialogue of these young artists with established artists. Galerie Anita Beckers was established in 1995 in Darmstadt and moved to Frankfurt in 1998. From the beginning, the emphasis has been on promoting young artists. The gallery has been a pioneer for the promotion of video and new media art. Galerie Kornfeld was established in 2011 in Berlin. In 2014, 68projects was established, with a focus on promoting young artists through exhibitions and residencies, with a focus on international collaborations. A close exchange between art and its audience has been at the center of the gallery since its beginnings.