On Kawara Silence

Author:   Buren Daniel ,  Whitney Davis ,  Jeffrey Weiss ,  Anne Wheeler
Publisher:   Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   24 March 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Buren Daniel ,  Whitney Davis ,  Jeffrey Weiss ,  Anne Wheeler
Publisher:   Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.
Imprint:   Guggenheim Museum Publications,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 33.10cm
Weight:   2.080kg
ISBN:  

9780892075195


ISBN 10:   0892075198
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   24 March 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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On Kawara: Silence, a quietly rapturous exhibition that opens this weekend at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, showcases the career of an artist who used minimal means for maximum effect. The artist died last year while preparing this show - instantly transforming his sequential paintings from an open-ended feat to a closed structure - and I had expected, when the show was announced, that Kawara's insistently spare art would feel funereal in the Guggenheim's grand spiral. I was wrong; it is a joy. Like each of his date paintings, the exhibition is somehow awesome and modest at once. It reckons with the grandest questions of being and time, and yet feels lived in, comfortable, and winningly unpretentious. It brings cosmic time down to human scale, and then makes an individual life feel as broad as the universe.--Jason Farago The Guardian (02/06/2015)


Like a true Conceptualist, Mr. Kawara stuck to the facts and also transcended them, endowing them with a resonant appeal and a sense of form as fine-tuned as any Minimalist sculptor's. His art helped shape Conceptualism's love of uninflected information. It fused the movement's basic duality of image plus text into an instantly legible unit before it actually existed. It also bridged the gap between the modernist monochrome as devotional object and the Duchampian ready-made.--Roberta Smith -The New York Times -


Like a true Conceptualist, Mr. Kawara stuck to the facts and also transcended them, endowing them with a resonant appeal and a sense of form as fine-tuned as any Minimalist sculptor's. His art helped shape Conceptualism's love of uninflected information. It fused the movement's basic duality of image plus text into an instantly legible unit before it actually existed. It also bridged the gap between the modernist monochrome as devotional object and the Duchampian ready-made.--Roberta Smith The New York Times


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