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Madison Square Art is once again using art to further beautify Madison Square Park’s already immaculate public space. Beginning March 31 and running through May 15, Kota Ezawa, the internationally acclaimed multi-media artist, is presenting his most recent video piece, City of Nature.
Ezawa’s work specializes in reexamining iconic pop culture images in ways that invite the viewer to revisit the connotations that these images elicit. City of Nature is no exception. The video consists of a montage of over seventy clips that include both original animation by Ezawa, as well as clips from films such as Brokeback Mountain, Deliverance, Days of Heaven, and Twin Peaks to name a few.
Ezawa then re-animated these clips in accordance with the rest of the piece to create an abstracted and ethereal view of nature. Set in the heart of Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron district, Ezawa’s work calls into question the viewers own relationship with urban versus rural environments.
City of Nature, on display daily from 11 am until 9 pm, it is yet another welcome installment from Madison Square Art, an extension of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, that embraces artists working in all media.
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