Opening: Thursday, November 7th, 6-8pm
Special performance of The Calling by Jessica Lang Dance
Thursday, November 21st, 7pm
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce our third
solo exhibition of the work of the Japanese artist, Shinichi
Maruyama.
This latest project, Nudes, is a series of nine elegant and
mysterious images of a dancer in motion that contradict
the notion of a photograph as a single moment of stopped
time. Rather, these images are comprised of thousands of
individual frames layered together. Collaborating with the
choreographer Jessica Lang, Maruyama has created
images of movement and the human figure without a
beginning or end. The inspiration comes from Marcel
Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912. A painting which “ended all painting,”
Duchamp envisioned a scene enacted over time—a construction of multiple frames of a
figure walking down a staircase.
Maruyama’s work has consistently examined form suspended in space and time. Nudes
is an evolution from his earlier projects, Kusho, 2006—a series of dynamic collisions of
ink and water in mid-air, and Gardens, 2010—surreal landscapes created with paint.
Furthermore, Nudes expresses his interest in Zen Buddhism—by combining
uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting image as a whole appears to be
something different from what actually exists.
Shinichi Maruyama was born in Nagano, Japan in 1968. He has lived and worked in
New York since 2003. His work has been exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem; The Crow Collection, Dallas; Carnegie Hall, New York; The Boghossian
Foundation, Brussels; and is included in numerous public and private collections
worldwide.