On Kawara
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On Kawara built one of Conceptual art’s most rigorous meditations on time, presence and mortality. Beginning in 1966, his Today series consisted of date paintings made according to strict rules in whatever city he occupied. Parallel projects—telegrams stating I AM STILL ALIVE, postcards recording when he got up, maps tracing daily movements and lists of people met—turned ordinary existence into a disciplined archive.
Conceptual art; painting; mail art; books
Objects
Major Works
- 1966–2014Today Series / Date Paintings
- 1968–79I Got Up
- 1968–79I Went
- 1968–79I Met
- 1970–2000I Am Still Alive
- 1970–72One Million Years: Past
- 1980–98One Million Years: Future
- 1965Code
- 1965Title
- 1998 onwardPure Consciousness
Interviews & Writing
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