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May 10–Jun 25, 1989

On Kawara, Date Paintings: 1966-1988

On Kawara, March 11, 1967.

  • On Kawara, March 11, 1967.

  • Nancy Spero, Untitled, from The Artaud Series, 1969.

  • H.C. Westermann, Untitled letter, 1966.

  • Joseph Kosuth, Art as Idea as Idea>>Element.

  • Lawrence Weiner, One fluorescein sea marker poured into the sea, 1968.

  • Vito Acconci, Room Situation, 1970.

  • Vito Acconci, Room Situation, 1970.

  • Richard Artschwager, Upper Right Hand Pinch, 1971.

  • Christina Ramberg, Head, 1972.

  • Douglas Huebler, Duration Piece #31, 1973.

  • Ray Yoshida, Unsuitable Lineage, 1974.

  • Vija Clemins, Untitled (Constellation II), 1975.

  • Leon Golub, Mao Tse Tung (in sarcophagus), 1977.

  • Robert Mangold, A Curved Line Within Two Distorted Rectangles, 1978.

  • Matt Mullican, Symbol Chart, 1979.

  • Jenny Holzer, Untitled, 1980.

  • Ed Paschke, Espiritu, 1981.

  • Allan McCollum, Surrogates, 1982.

  • Terry Winters, Untitled, 1983.

  • Jim Nutt, What I’ve got is much worse, 1984.

  • Julia Fish, Rock, 1985.

  • Richard Prince, Missing and Presumed Dead, 1986.

  • Tony Tasset, Domestic Abstraction, 1987.

  • Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1988.

  • Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait (eyes), 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, Installation View, 1989.

  • On Kawara, March 11, 1967.

  • Twenty-four of On Kawara’s Date Paintings, one from each year since 1966—the year he began executing them—were juxtaposed with 24 artworks executed in the same time span by artists of local, national and international stature, demonstrating Kawara’s remarkably acute and unsettling persistence towards marking his mortal placement in the infinitely larger span of time.

    This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Portikus, Frankfurt, West Germany, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan.

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