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On Kawara

(Japanese, 1933–2014)

one million years past - for all those who lived and died future - for the last one by on kawara

On Kawara

ONE MILLION YEARS Past - For all those who lived and died Future - For the last one, 1999

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Biography

Timeline

1933
Born in Karya-Aichi-ken, Japan
2014
Died in New York

Exhibitions

2019
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
On Kawara, David Lamelas, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC [catalogue]
The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard: artists’ postcards from 1960 to now, The Bristish Museum, London
2018
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
On Kawara: One Million Years (Reading), Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo exhibition)
A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York [catalogue]
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Immer anders, immer gleich: Ein Versuch über Kunst und Systeme, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland [catalogue]
Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp [itinerary: Fondazione Prada, Milan] [curated by Luc Tuymans] [catalogue]
TID, Alvesta Exhibition Hall, Alvesta, Sweden
2017 - 2019
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
The Long Run, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
On Kawara: One Million Years, Oratorio di San Ludovico Dorsoduro, Venice [organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England as part of 57th Venice Biennale] (solo exhibition)
I am a problem, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK2), Frankfurt
Formasobrefondo, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Minimalism & Beyond, Mnuchin Gallery, New York [catalogue]
Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection, 1944-1989, MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt [itinerary: Museo de Art Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires] [catalogue]
TEXT. Selected Text-Based Works From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Listasafn Íslands, National Gallery of Iceland
Time as Landscape; Inquiries of Art and Science, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida [exhibition publication]
Von Christo bis Kiefer. Die Collection Lambert, Avignon/From Christ to Pine. The Collection Lambert, Avignon, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany
Wirtschaftswerte/Museumwerte, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf [catalogue]
2016
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Accrochage, Punta della Dogana, Venice
Aspects of Minimalism, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York [catalogue]
Entanglements, Luhring Augustine, New York
Life Itself. On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Natureza Franciscana, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich [catalogue]
Time Extended/1964-1978: Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent [catalogue]
Zeit verstreichen. Moment und Dauer in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland [catalogue]
2015
On Kawara Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
On Kawara: 1966, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
On Kawara: One Million Years, Asia House, London (solo exhibition)
On Kawara—Silence, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York [catalogue] (solo exhibition)
2050. A brief history of the future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels [organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Paris] [catalogue]
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Eppur si muove/And yet it turns: Art et technique, un espace partagé, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
Fuego blanco: La colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [catalogue]
Future Present: Emanuel Hoffman Foundation. Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day, Schaulager, Basel [catalogue]
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, England [itinerary: Tate Liverpool] [catalogue]
How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, England [catalogue]
An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, Tate Liverpool [itinerary: Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK 2), Frankfurt; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France]
Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Time of Others, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [itinerary: The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Singapore Art Museum; and Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane] [catalogue]
2010 - 2011
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Taking Place, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2008 - 2009
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Modern Art Center
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Literature

2004
I Met. Hrsg. v. Editions Micheline Szwajcer & Michèle Didier. 12 Bde., 4.790 S., 21x15, Leineneinband. Aufl. 90 num. & sign. Exx. & 10 a.p. Brüssel, 10000.00 €, (In twelve volumes (between 10th May1968 to 17th Sept. 1979) On Kawara has noted every day in chronologic order the names of all the people with whom he conversed.)
The 90`s. Kat. (Engl./Frz.). Hrsg. v. Pierre Huber. Mit einem Text v. Thierry Davila. 44 S., 11 farb. Abb., 20,5x14,5, Fadenheft.. Zürich, 19.80 €
2002
Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills. Ersch. zur Ausstellg. in der Ikon Gallery, Birminghamu. Le Consortium Dijon. Texte (Engl.) von Denizot u.a.. 334 S., 180 s/w Abb., 24x18, Ppdg., Dijon, 42.00 €
On Kawara. (Engl.) Survey: Jonathan Watkins, Focus: René Denizot, Chronolgie, Bibliogr.. 164 S., viele farb. Abb., 29x25, brosch.. (= Cont. Artists Phaidon) London, 39.95 €
2000
Horizontality / Verticality. Essays v. Michel Butor & Ulrich Wilmes. 240 S., 273 farb. Abb., 28x22, Ln., Schutzumschlag. München/Köln, 39.80 €, (Gegenüberstellung der beiden Werkkonzepte "I Got Up" und " Went" (1968-1979))
1999
One Million Years. Hrsg. v. Editions Micheline Szwajcer & Michèle Didier. 2 Bde., je 2.012 S., 14,5x10,5, Ledereinband. Aufl. 500 num & 60 num. & sign. Exx.. Brüssel, num. & sign. 5600.00 €/ num. 1650.00 € (1. Vol: Past “For All Those Who Have Lived and Died” calender starts 998031 BC to 1969 AD, 1 million years. 2 Vol. Future “For the Last One” starts 1993 AD to 1001992, 1 million years)
1994
June 9, 1991. 'Today' Series No. 23, 1991. Text v. H. Wiedemann. 64 S., 32 farbige Abb., 20x15,5, brosch.. Stuttgart, 12.50 €
1992
Again and Against / Wieder und Wider. Kat. (Engl.). Vorwort von W. M. Ernst.80 S., 81 Abb., 23x31, Ppdg., Frankfurt/M., 35.00 €
1991
On Kawara. Von René Denizot. 122 S., s/w & farb. Abb., 24x18, brosch..Frankfurt/M., 20.00 €
1987
1976 Berlin 1986. Kat. (Dt./Engl.). Ausstellung in der DAAD Galerie in Berlin 1987. 124 S., zahlr. s/w Abb., 26x21, brosch.. Berlin, 40.00 €
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