ON KAWARA

"I GOT UP ~ I READ ~ I WENT OUT ~ I MET ~ I AM DATE PAINTING ~ I AM STILL ALIVE."

• On Kawara
• Contents
• The Author
• EARLY ON (1) Tokyo
• 1953: Bathroom
• 1954: Warehouse
• 1955/56: Studio
• EARLY ON (2) Paris, New York
• 1964: Sketchbooks
• 1965: Studio
• ON KAWARA: the all-seeing years
• 1966: New York
• 1967: New York
• 1968: Mexico City
• 1969: New York (+ Moon)
• 1970: New York (+ Tokyo)
• 1971: New York
• 1972: New York (+ Stockholm)
• 1973: Road Trip (+ Nova Scotia)
• 1974: Road Trip (+ Bern)
• 1975: Road Trip
• 1976: Berlin
• 1977: New York (+ London)
• 1978: New York (+ East Asia)
• 1979: New York (+ Stockholm)
• Postscript
• GETTING ON
• 1992: Lisson Gallery
• 1998: Personal Delivery
• 2002: Ikon Gallery
• LATER ON
• 1980-1988: ON
• 1989: AND
• 1990: HIROKO
• 1991: AND
• 1992: WONDERFUL
• 1993: DATES
• 1994: JUST
• 1995: GO
• 1996: ON
• 1997-2007: AND
• 2008: ON
• 2009-2013: AND
• 2014: ON
• ON DATE PAINTED
• Template
• The Artist is Present
• The On Kawara Show
• Chateau d'Oiron
• Views of Mount Fuji
• Special Days?
• Hong Kong
• Tokyo / New York
• Double Date Days
• Eternal August
• The Rome Studio
• ON COLLECTIONS
• Frankfurt MMK
• Dia Foundation
• Glenstone
• BIG ON
• 1969
• 1978
• 1982
• 1984 & 1987
• outro
• Sizes 'A' to 'H'
• ON GOT UP
• 1972
• 1972 concluded
• 1976
• Nobu and Aoki
• Gaucho
• ON WENT
• London
• Berlin
• Greene Street
• Bern
• ON MET
• Takashi Hashimoto
• Ikko Narahara
• Heinz Nigg
• Meet the Vogels
• BREAKING ON
• Voice From Moon
• Just Numbers
• Travelers Song
• Love Letters
• Unsolved Code
• Outro
• LATER ON (2)
• 2000
• 2004
• 1993
• FICTION
• The Strange Case of On Kawara
• The Mystery of the Time Artist

ON GOT UP

This section investigates significant series of postcards that On Kawara sent to individuals:

• To Pontus Hultén in Stockholm in 1972

• To various individuals from Berlin in 1976

• To his close friends in New York, Nobu Fukui and Hirotsugu Aoki, from various places, 1968 to 1979

• To Kasper König in New York in 1969, featuring a photo of one or two mounted gauchos

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