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ON KAWARA "TODAY SERIES"
Kawara left Japan at an early stage, creating a unique lifestyle of a cosmopolitan who wanders around the world. His thoroughness appears in his way of relating to the art world too. He never shows up in public such as at the openings of shows held in New York, where his studio is located.
What are the reasons why conceptual art is considered difficult? Judging from Kawara's works, the look is not difficult at all. The date written on monochrome background, and the words written on the telegrams and postcards ( 'I am still alive. I got up at...') are insipidly simple, being understandable by anyone at first glance. The reason why people withdraw from conceptual art is because the expression method does not belong to the commonly accepted custom of art, and because the photographs or symbols, which are the motifs, are insipid and monotonous (there is also the aspect that the artist intended not to give any commodity value to the work from a critical viewpoint).
On Kawara has made over 2,000 of these paintings since the 1960s, each one completed on the day shown. And if he fails to finish by the stroke of midnight, he destroys it.
MAY31,2006
I got up at 10.31
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