On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On T (by Ikon Gallery)

• 2002 edition.  334 pages
• Published by Les Presses du reel and Ikon Gallery
• Hardcover with white boards.
• Condition: new

This book was published for the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara, Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills organised by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Le Consortium, Dijon.

This publication gathers and documents Kawara's Date paintings (revealing for the first time their method of achieving), telegrams and books from the One Million Years series.  

The Foreword states:

"No artist's statement here, as ever, no portrait of the artist and no interview. Furthermore there are no newspaper cuttings to provide a commentary of current affairs for Date Paintings, and no colourful postcards.

Being 'still alive' for almost forty years is embodied essentially in this exhibition, forty years that take up four lines in the twenty books of two million years. Counting them down, year by year, day by day, is conducive to meditation......

.... is conductive to a consciousness that equates a kindergarten child with an escteric philosopher, a professor of mathematics with seemingly self-taught-man, a cave man with a watcher on the hills.

There is too much and therefore nothing for the artist to say."