On Kawara: Silence, 06 Feb 2015 — 03 Mar 2015
Exhibitions

On Kawara: Silence

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)

Through radically restricted means, On Kawara‘s (b. 1933, Aichi) work engages the personal and historical consciousness of place and time. Kawara’s practice is often associated with the rise of Conceptual art, yet in its complex wit and philosophical reach, it stands well apart.

Silence is be the first full exhibition of Kawara’s output, beginning in 1964 and including every category of work, much of it produced during his travels across the globe: date paintings (the Today series); postcards (the I Got Up series); telegrams (the I Am Still Alive series); maps (the I Went series); lists of names (the I Met series); newspaper cuttings (the I Read series); the inventory of paintings (Journals); and calendars (One Hundred Years and One Million Years). The exhibition will also present numerous drawings produced in Paris in 1964, which are fascinating proposals for unrealized works; and Kawara’s only two extant paintings of 1965, Location and Title, which herald the Today series. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Guggenheim will organize a continuous live reading of the artist’s One Million Years, the steady recitation of numbers from a vast ledger, which will be performed on the ground floor of the Guggenheim rotunda.

The artist’s paintings were first shown at the Guggenheim Museum in the 1971 Guggenheim International Exhibition. Over 40 years later this large exhibition will transform the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda—itself a form that signifies movement through time and space—into a site within which audiences can reflect on an artistic practice of cumulative power and depth.

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
mon, wed, fri, sun 10:00 am – 5:30 pm; tue, sat 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
thu

T: +1 212 423 3618
M: visitorinfo@guggenheim.org
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ADDRESS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)

ESTABLISHED
1937
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