Artists on on Kawara

Artists from Ren e Green to Haim Steinbach explore themes of temporality and absurdity in the work of On Kawara

This is the sixth volume in a series that builds upon Dia Art Foundation's Artists on Artists lectures. The contributors to this book explore the practice of On Kawara (1932-2014) from various points of entry: Alejandro Cesarco uses a self-reflexive approach to the ideas of artistic legacy, influence and work; Nancy Davenport contends with innocence and trauma in two of Kawara's most influential series; Ren e Green weaves a poetic relationship between the work of Chantal Akerman and Kawara; Annette Lawrence provides a close reading of the Today series and her own journals, grappling with what it means to keep time; Scott Lyall considers the experience and contingency of time, differentiating between thinking with and speaking about a work of art; Dave McKenzie stages a diaristic correspondence with Kawara; Bettina Pousttchi reflects on duration in art and the history of time keeping; and Haim Steinbach plays with Beckettian abstraction, absurdity and repetition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944521932
• ISBN13: 9780944521939
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Dia Art Foundation
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 7.4"