Date Paintings 1981-1983
On Kawara
1983
Date Paintings 1981-1983
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by ...
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Date Paintings 1981-1983
On Kawara
1983
Tokyo: …on Sundays Publications
Unpaginated [84 pages and 3 sheets of miniature stickers]
24.2 × 16.7 cm

Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by On Kawara between 1 June 1981 and 31 August 1983, accompanied by a comprehensive index recording the place, date, and day of the week on which each work was executed.


 


The “Date Paintings,” also known as the “Today” series, were initiated on 4 January 1966 and remained one of the defining projects of On Kawara's practice. Each canvas bears a single date, rendered according to the language and typographic conventions of the place in which it was painted. Every painting was housed by the artist in a custom-made cardboard box containing a newspaper clipping from the day of its execution. According to Guggenheim and Dia, Kawara usually produced a painting every day, and occasionally he completed two or even three. Like his telegrams, the “Date Paintings” function as both precise records of time and existential propositions, affirming the artist's presence in the here and now while fixing a singular moment in time through the act of painting. Elegantly conceived, this publication extends that logic by translating the paintings into a sequence of text-as-image abstractions.


 


This copy includes the publisher's original supplementary materials: two postcards, a laid-in booklet of stickers, and a miniature paper facsimile of a “Date Painting” to be cut out and assembled.

Tokyo: …on Sundays Publications
Unpaginated [84 pages and 3 sheets of miniature stickers]
24.2 × 16.7 cm

Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by On Kawara between 1 June 1981 and 31 August 1983, accompanied by a comprehensive index recording the place, date, and day of the week on which each work was executed.

 

The “Date Paintings,” also known as the “Today” series, were initiated on 4 January 1966 and remained one of the defining projects of On Kawara's practice. Each canvas bears a single date, rendered according to the language and typographic conventions of the place in which it was painted. Every painting was housed by the artist in a custom-made cardboard box containing a newspaper clipping from the day of its execution. According to Guggenheim and Dia, Kawara usually produced a painting every day, and occasionally he completed two or even three. Like his telegrams, the “Date Paintings” function as both precise records of time and existential propositions, affirming the artist's presence in the here and now while fixing a singular moment in time through the act of painting. Elegantly conceived, this publication extends that logic by translating the paintings into a sequence of text-as-image abstractions.

 

This copy includes the publisher's original supplementary materials: two postcards, a laid-in booklet of stickers, and a miniature paper facsimile of a “Date Painting” to be cut out and assembled.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by On Kawara between 1 June 1981 and 31 August 1983, accompanied by a comprehensive index recording the place, date, and day of the week on which each work was executed.

 

The “Date Paintings,” also known as the “Today” series, were initiated on 4 January 1966 and remained one of the defining projects of On Kawara's practice. Each canvas bears a single date, rendered according to the language and typographic conventions of the place in which it was painted. Every painting was housed by the artist in a custom-made cardboard box containing a newspaper clipping from the day of its execution. According to Guggenheim and Dia, Kawara usually produced a painting every day, and occasionally he completed two or even three. Like his telegrams, the “Date Paintings” function as both precise records of time and existential propositions, affirming the artist's presence in the here and now while fixing a singular moment in time through the act of painting. Elegantly conceived, this publication extends that logic by translating the paintings into a sequence of text-as-image abstractions.

 

This copy includes the publisher's original supplementary materials: two postcards, a laid-in booklet of stickers, and a miniature paper facsimile of a “Date Painting” to be cut out and assembled.

Tokyo: …on Sundays Publications
Unpaginated [84 pages and 3 sheets of miniature stickers]
24.2 × 16.7 cm

Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by On Kawara between 1 June 1981 and 31 August 1983, accompanied by a comprehensive index recording the place, date, and day of the week on which each work was executed.

 

The “Date Paintings,” also known as the “Today” series, were initiated on 4 January 1966 and remained one of the defining projects of On Kawara's practice. Each canvas bears a single date, rendered according to the language and typographic conventions of the place in which it was painted. Every painting was housed by the artist in a custom-made cardboard box containing a newspaper clipping from the day of its execution. According to Guggenheim and Dia, Kawara usually produced a painting every day, and occasionally he completed two or even three. Like his telegrams, the “Date Paintings” function as both precise records of time and existential propositions, affirming the artist's presence in the here and now while fixing a singular moment in time through the act of painting. Elegantly conceived, this publication extends that logic by translating the paintings into a sequence of text-as-image abstractions.

 

This copy includes the publisher's original supplementary materials: two postcards, a laid-in booklet of stickers, and a miniature paper facsimile of a “Date Painting” to be cut out and assembled.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition “One Million Years” at Galerie Watari, Tokyo (27 October–30 November 1983), this volume was designed by Yoshira Nakamura and Masami Akiyama. It documents the ninety-five “Date Paintings” completed by On Kawara between 1 June 1981 and 31 August 1983, accompanied by a comprehensive index recording the place, date, and day of the week on which each work was executed.

 

The “Date Paintings,” also known as the “Today” series, were initiated on 4 January 1966 and remained one of the defining projects of On Kawara's practice. Each canvas bears a single date, rendered according to the language and typographic conventions of the place in which it was painted. Every painting was housed by the artist in a custom-made cardboard box containing a newspaper clipping from the day of its execution. According to Guggenheim and Dia, Kawara usually produced a painting every day, and occasionally he completed two or even three. Like his telegrams, the “Date Paintings” function as both precise records of time and existential propositions, affirming the artist's presence in the here and now while fixing a singular moment in time through the act of painting. Elegantly conceived, this publication extends that logic by translating the paintings into a sequence of text-as-image abstractions.

 

This copy includes the publisher's original supplementary materials: two postcards, a laid-in booklet of stickers, and a miniature paper facsimile of a “Date Painting” to be cut out and assembled.

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