This week I went to GOMA and saw the new exhibition Time Of Others. This exhibition centres around the theme of time. In class this week (Week #4) we discussed On Kawara and his date paintings, and some of them happened to be featured in this exhibition. On Kawara's ritualistic process is very interesting to me and I like his approach to his art and to painting.
Kawara began making the paintings on January 4, 1966, and continued making them every day until his death in 2014. The works were produced according to a strict set of parameters. Each was painted during the course of a single day (any work not completed in that time was destroyed), and each was rendered in one of eight possible sizes and three possible colors: red, blue, or grey.
Each painting could take anywhere from four to seven hours to complete, depending on its size. As curator Jeffrey Weiss explains , the process allowed Kawara to “focus and reflect on the act of painting.” Weiss points out that Kawara’s painstaking and methodical practice also represented a departure from the artistic norm of the 1960s, when painting “was undergoing a kind of crisis.” Instead of abandoning painting, notes the curator, “what he did was take the practice of painting to a new place.”
(Caitlin Dover, https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/how-on-kawara-made-his-date-paintings)
On Kawara, Date Paintings, 1980-1985.
Here are some other photos of On Kawara's date paintings from other exhibitions.
On Kawara, Date Paintings, Various dates.
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