On Kawara
Nov 01, 2018
3 minutes
By Dane Mitchell
Typographic forms inscribed on canvas, stamped on cards, printed and bound in volumes, punched out on telegrams, voiced over airwaves. On Kawara’s date-related works suggest a level of remoteness and detachment in their use of data and a set-based logic of numeric and systematic languages. Abstract and serial in nature, the works describe time with a cool distance. However, Kawara’s language-objects are anything but hermetic codes: they are warm and generous spells that transport us through those
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