On Kawara
‘I Got Up’ Postcards (1968 – 1979)
Between 1968 and 1979, On Kawara created the series 'I Got Up', in which he sent picture postcards to friends and family, noting his time of getting up, the date, the place of residence and the name and address of the receiver.
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On Kawara, I Got Up at 10.19 A.M., 23 Aug 1976, (ink and stamps on postcard), 1976 [Wangsim, Hong Kong. © On Kawara]
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The conceptual artist On Kawara, who tirelessly explored in uncanny depth the daily wonder of being alive
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On Kawara - Aug. 3, 2005
from A corner piece: Aug. 1. Aug. 2, 2005. Aug. 3, 2005. Sept. 1, 2005. Sept. 2, 2005. Sept. 3, 2005 (in 6 parts)
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On Kawara
from the Guggenheim:
“The series I Am Still Alive began with three telegrams that On Kawara sent in 1969. They read, in succession: I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE DON’T WORRY; I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE WORRY; and I AM GOING TO SLEEP FORGET IT. These telegrams, each sent three days apart, get as close to ‘an expression of interiority—and a narrative arc—as Kawara will ever get.’ Just over a month later, Kawara sent another telegram to someone else, which reads, I AM STILL ALIVE. He sent nearly nine hundred telegrams of this kind to dozens of friends and acquaintances for more than three decades.”
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by On Kawara
source: collectionarchive.tumblr.com
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On Kawara's daily artmaking practice did generate a lot of data. Now the Tama Art University Library has released their On Kawara Db, a digitized database of their collection of Kawara publications. This includes all 16972 pages of 24 volumes of the artist's daily record of when he got up, where he went, who he met, and what he read. And a couple hundred Today Series date paintings. And a couple hundred telegrams letting people know he was still alive. The On Kawara Db is a very On Brand conceptual tribute.
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ON KAWARA
I WENT, 2007
MIXED MEDIA
Set of 12 volumes - 21 x 14.8 cm each volume
573.00 x 192.00 x 258.00 in
1455.4 x 487.7 x 655.3 cm
Edition of 90
Certificate numbered and signed
$21,727 - $32,591
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I saw this art series (or at least a piece of this series) at Dia: Beacon yesterday---
On Kawara's (1932-2014) Date Paintings
Artist On Kawara started these date paintings in 1966 and it was a lifelong project. Almost up to the date of his death he worked on one. Kawara painted days, over 3,000 of them. It was the date of the actual day with custom-mixed paint and hand-lettered dates. If he was in a specific country that day he used their language and their date format. If he did not finish the painting by midnight it would be destroyed.
Every painting has a custom cardboard box it goes into along with the local paper.
Is it weird? Yeah. Is it something I'd want to make myself? Not really. But it fascinated him and it was over such a long period of time that it wasn't him catering to anybody other than himself. So make your own weird art that interests you, anon.
This was the ask prompt. Thanks!
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On Kawara, Nothing, Something, Everything, 1963
(On Kawara only made a date painting on September 15 twice: in 1985 and 1997.)
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On Kawara, 1966
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On Kawara, I Got Up at 8.42 A.M., Jun 30 1977, (ink on postcard), 1977 [Larkin Erdmann, Cham. © On Kawara]
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On Kawara
I GOT UP AT 3.19 P.M, 1972
stamps on postcard
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