On Kawara
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On Kawara (born December 24, 1932) is a Japanese conceptual artist living.
He settled in New York City in 1965. He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976.
Since 1966 he has made a long series of "date paintings" (the Today series), which consist entirely of the date on which the painting was executed in simple white lettering set against a solid background. Other series of works include the I Went and I Met series of postcards sent to his friends detailing aspects of his life, another series of postcards, I Got Up At, rubber-stamped with the time he got up that morning, and a series of telegrams sent to various people bearing the message "I AM STILL ALIVE".
Much like the Today series, Kawara uses a number of days followed by date the work was executed as his life-dates. So the piece entitled Title at the National Gallery of Art has Kawara's life-dates as 26,697 (January 27, 2006) which, when calculated, place Kawara's birthdate at December 24, 1932.
Kawara does not give interviews nor comments about his work.
[edit] External links
- A piece on Kawara by Adrian Searle from the Guardian
- An essay by art critic Lynne Cooke on On Kawara
- Start it License to practice On Kawaras individual moments.
- I am Still Alive an installation piece after On Kawara by Martin John Callanan
- Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills. 20 November 2002 - 26 January 2003 exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
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| NAME | Kawara, On |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Japanese conceptual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kariya, Aichi |
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