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‘theriseandfalloftheberlinwall’ es una animación de dos minutos y medio que representa la construcción y destrucción del Muro de Berlín en 1961 y 1989, respectivamente. Presentado en formas monocromas, el vídeo transforma el metraje original en un campo animado pintado y en una abstracción de los acontecimientos originales. La banda sonora presenta una versión en cuerda del himno nacional alemán (Joseph Haydn, Opus 76 nº 3) y en un remix ambiental del tema ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1′, de Pink Floyd, creando así una yuxtaposición sonora que acompaña la transición entre las imágenes en blanco y negro y las de color del levantamiento y el derrumbe del Muro.
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.