On Kawara—Silence

Date: Feb. 6, 2015 – May 3, 2015

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From the Guggenheim website :

Through radically restricted means, On Kawara’s 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.

Organized with the cooperation of the artist, On Kawara—Silence will be the first full representation 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.

On Kawara’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.

Explore On Kawara’s art and process through new images every day at the On Kawara—Silence exhibition site .

One Million Years Live Reading
Sun, Wed, Fri, 11 am–5 pm, through May 3
A continuous live reading of the artist’s One Million Years  will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition. This monumental series consists of two groups of volumes, One Million Years Past  and One Million Years Future , with pages listing one million years into the past and one million years into the future. Readings will take place on the ground floor of the Guggenheim rotunda.
Admission

Adults $25
Students and Seniors (65 years +) with valid ID $18
Children under 12 Free
Members Free

Purchase tickets here or Plan Your Visit on the Guggenheim website.

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