Article: On Kawara: David Zwirner Gallery, New York.

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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