He is Kawara ( Jap. 河 原 温 Kawara He , January 2, 1933 , Kariya , Aichi - July 10, 2014 , New York ) is a Japanese conceptual artist who has lived in New York since 1965 . He participated in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976 . He is represented by the David Zwirner Gallery in New York and the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris .
| He is kawara | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | 河 原 温 |
| Date of Birth | January 2, 1933 |
| Place of Birth | Kariya , Aichi , Japan |
| Date of death | July 10, 2014 (81 years old) |
| A place of death | New York , USA |
| Citizenship |  Japan USA |
| Genre | graphics , painting , email art |
| Style | conceptual art |
| Awards | [d] ( 1992 ) |
Content
- 1 Biography and creativity
- 2 Books of the artist, prepared by He Kawara
- 3 References
- 4 See also
Biography and Creativity
In the early 1950s, inspired by surrealists , He Kawara created paintings with catastrophic everyday scenes. He left his native Japan in 1959, and after staying in Mexico and France, settled in New York in 1965. Living in Paris, Cavara experimented with many styles, began to create drawings based on calendars. These works set the stage for the conceptual leap that he made after arriving in New York. The result was a fundamental change in his work.
Since 1966, he has been working on the Today series (the first picture of the series he created on January 4, 1966). It consists directly of the dates themselves, in which the painting is created (white numbers in typographic type on monochrome canvas). If Kavara cannot complete the painting on the day on which it was started, he destroys it. Canvases are stored in special cardboard boxes containing pages from local newspapers of that day and the city where the artist painted. Kavara does not write every day. In the first year of work on the series, he created 241 works. Not all canvases are identical: the background color varies from gray to red and blue, the font and date spelling also change.
Other series of works, I Went and I Met , consist of postcards sent to friends containing aspects of his life. Another series of postcards - I Got Up At , contains stamps with the time at which he woke up in the morning. A series of telegrams sent to different people contains the message “I am still alive” (“I AM STILL ALIVE”).
Kavara did not give interviews or comment on his work.
Artist Books Prepared by He Kavar
- One Million Years, 1999, Editions Micheline Szwajcer & Michèle Didier (2 vols.)
- I MET, 2004, Editions Micheline Szwajcer & Michèle Didier (12 vols.)
- I WENT, 2007, mfc-michèle didier (12 vols.)
- I GOT UP, 2008, mfc-michèle didier (12 vols.)
Links
See also
- List of Japanese Artists