This exhibition will bring together new and recent works related to Kota Ezawa’s “The Crime of Art” series, a group of light boxes and video animations that chronicle some of the most infamous and high-profile museum heists in history.
At the heart of this exhibition is a series of images that pays hom- age to the 13 works — including those by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt and Vermeer — stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. Ezawa draws from the histories of media, pop- ular culture and art history to create distilled renderings of iconic images. His simplified versions of indelible images remain easily recognizable and potent, the result of a process that illuminates the hold certain images have on their viewers. Working in a range of mediums such as digital animation, slide projections, light boxes, paper cut-outs, collage, print and wood sculptures, Ezawa main- tains a keen awareness of how images shape our experience and memory of events. “Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art” was organized by SITE Santa Fe with the Mead Art Museum.
In-House Curator: Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art
Kota Ezawa, “Munch Theft,” 2017. Duratrans transparency and LED light box, 40 × 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, and Haines Gallery, San Francisco. Kota Ezawa, “The Concert,” 2015. Duratrans transparency and LED lightbox, 28 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Collection of Nion McEvoy.
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