{"id":1593,"date":"2026-03-12T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:58:40","slug":"the-artist-who-painted-time-on-kawara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/the-artist-who-painted-time-on-kawara\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist Who Painted Time &#8211; On Kawara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Kawara (1932\u20132014) was a Japanese conceptual artist whose work explored time, existence, and consciousness through minimalist precision and daily ritual. After moving to New York in the 1960s, he developed a body of work that turned the passage of days into art itself. His major projects \u2014 Today Series (date paintings, 1966\u20132014), I Got Up (1970\u20131979), I Met (1968\u20131979), and I Am Still Alive (telegrams sent to friends, 1970\u20132000s) \u2014 form an extraordinary meditation on being and time. The Pinault Collection at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris presents striking fragments from The Today Series, offering viewers a rare encounter with On Kawara\u2019s meditative precision and the quiet poetry of recorded days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Artist Who Painted Time \/ On Kawara, Collection Pinault, Bourse de Commerce, Paris 2025\/26\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f45nlsSo16w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Kawara (1932\u20132014) was a Japanese conceptual artist whose work explored time, existence, and consciousness through minimalist precision and daily ritual. After moving to New York in the 1960s, he developed a body of work that turned the passage of days into art itself. His major projects \u2014 Today Series (date paintings, 1966\u20132014), I Got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}