For The Armory Show 2014 Bruce Silverstein Gallery proposes an exhibition featuring the work of the artist Shinichi Maruyama.
Over the past decade, Maruyama’s work has been largely concerned with imaging form in space. His latest works, a series entitled Nude, is a conceptual extension of his earlier projects, Kusho—a series of abstract images of Sumi ink and water combining in space, and Gardens, synthetic compositions imagined by the artist of paint in mid-air. After studying Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912, Maruyama was fascinated by the notion of an image comprised of multiple moments, a photograph with no beginning and no end—a contradiction to the inherent nature of the medium. For the series, Maruyama collaborated with the choreographer Jessica Lang—photographing a dancer in motion, then layering thousands of images of the dance, creating a single, sculptural form of the figure moving through space and time.
Maruayama writes of the series, “By putting together uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting image as a whole will appear to be something different from what actually exists”.
The artist has been exhibited widely and his work is a part of numerous public and private collections. He will have a solo exhibition in 2013 at The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas.
At The Armory 2014 we will also exhibit new works by Max Neumann, Zoe Strauss, Trine Sondergaard, Nicolai Howalt, Rosalind Solomon, John Wood and Keith Smith.
