Artist field note

On Kawara

Existence is recorded one day at a time.

Appears inConceptual Art
One Million Years by On Kawara
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One Million Years

1969-1998

Vast sequences of past and future years set a single life against unimaginable time.

The five in one idea

Kawara made the bare facts of date, movement and encounter carry the mystery of being alive.