• Kota Ezawa, Merzbau, 2022
• Watercolor digitally printed on mixed media paper
• 12 x 9 inches
• Signed and numbered edition of 15

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Merzbau is a small black-and-white watercolor painting based on one of the three existing photographs of Kurt Schwitters’ immersive installation with the same name. Schwittters’ total work of art was constructed between 1923 and 1937 in his apartment/studio in Hannover, Germany, and was destroyed by allied air raids at the end of World War II. Ezawa’s drawing of Merzbau was first exhibited as part of a wallpaper installation at Slash in the fall of 2019. Composed strictly out of geometric shapes shifting between different hues of grey, this piece represents the closest Kota has come to making an abstract painting.