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Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara update for Oct. 23 — ‘Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art’ and ‘Bloom Projects: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust’ exhibits open Nov. 10

by Community Contributor • October 23, 2018 • Comments Off

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Join us!

Saturday, November 10 from 6 – 8 pm for a reception celebrating
the opening of two new exhibitions, Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art and
Bloom Projects: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust.

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Kota Ezawa, Empty Frame, 2015, Courtesy the Artist; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica; and Haines Gallery, San Francisco.

Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust, 2018,
Courtesy the Artist

OPENING WEEKEND EVENT

In Conversation: Kota Ezawa with Curator Irene Hofmann
Saturday, November 10
5 – 6 pm at MCASB
Join artist Kota Ezawa and curator Irene Hofmann, SITE Santa Fe, for a conversational walkthrough of the exhibition Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art prior to the opening reception. Space is limited, so RSVP now to reserve your spot.

Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art, is a series of light-boxes and video animations by Oakland, CA-based artist Kota Ezawa that chronicles some of the most infamous and high-profile museum heists in history. At the heart of this exhibition is a series of images paying homage to the 13 artworks—including those by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

Ezawa’s digital interpretations of the stolen Stewart Gardner masterpieces are presented to scale and illuminated in light-boxes that serve as modern apparitions of the centuries-old works. These technological vestiges are at once copies of the originals, while also carrying the mark of Ezawa’s animated hand. Reduced to flat planes of color, the original paintings take on new life as Ezawa plays with ideas of appropriation and originality.Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art was curated by Irene Hofmann and organized by SITE Santa Fe with the Mead Art Museum.

Bloom Projects: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust marks Beatriz Olabarrieta’s first institutional show in the United States. Olabarrieta will present a new commissioned installation revolving around a film work, exploring her ongoing interest in writing, drawing, and collaboration with other artists, musicians, and writers as devices to generate performative spaces or situations. The exhibition will be accompanied by a commissioned text by Bianca Stoppani.

Beatriz Olabarrieta will visit Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara in early December 2018. Related programming information is forthcoming.