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Article: On Kawara: David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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In his latest exhibition, On Kawara presented what was ostensibly a pair of empty rooms. Minimally designed, they included muted gray carpets and false ceilings similar to those found in corporate offices. The only objects in these rooms were a set of four dark-gray foam cubes intended as seats, but used only hesitantly by gallery visitors, who must have assumed they were sculpture. From a sitting position, however, it was easier to absorb the sensory qualities of Kawara's exhibition. Its minimal visuality is meant to underscore a sense of temporal isolation, and to acknowledge as palpable the voices that sound from speakers above the false ceiling. Alternating between a ...
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Article: People in glass boxes; The Arts / For one week, 24 hours a day, a ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);
March 9, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... for a week, from conceptual artist On Kawara's One Million Years. The artwork ... hungry does not make for profundity: Kawara's readers will be allowed food and water ... all to hear, they will read from Past, Kawara's volumes that list every year from ...
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