ART–TIM–KAW

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Systems of Clarity

ART–TIM–KAW

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ART–TIM–KAW

Index Code:

ART–TIM–KAW

Orgin:

Japan

Field Notes:

Numbers assert presence; repetition measures existence.

Defining Moment:

Date Paintings and time-record works treating duration as material fact.

On Kawara

(

1932–2014

)

on kah-wah-rah

Kawara builds a world where time is rendered as factual structure, using repetition and record to treat duration as material.

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In On Kawara’s work, this approach appears where duration replaces image.

Position

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In On Kawara’s work, this approach appears where duration replaces image.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Observartory

On Kawara — Date Paintings

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

meaning as structure

Jan Schoonhoven

In Dialogue

time as notation