LYAM 3D

Copied Kota Ezawa, LYAM 3D, 2008, digital animation, color, silent; 04:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds, 2010.23, © 2008, Kota Ezawa

Artwork Details

Title
LYAM 3D
Artist
Date
2008
Location
Not on view
Copyright
© 2008, Kota Ezawa
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds
Mediums
Mediums Description
digital animation, color, silent; 04:00 minutes
Classifications
Highlights
Object Number
2010.23
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2010.23

Artwork Description

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.

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Exhibitions

Media - 2010.5 - SAAM-2010.5_1 - 73850
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image (1.0)
December 10, 2010–March 2, 2012
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image is a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from SAAM’s permanent collection.