Candida Höfer: On Kawara, Date Paintings in Private Collections

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From 2004 to 2007, the noted German art photographer Candida Hofer traveled the world to photograph Japanese-born, New York-based Conceptual artist On Kawara’s iconic Date Paintings in the homes of private collectors. Because this series of paintings at all times and only depicts one specific date–in bold, white, capital letters against a darker monochromatic ground–collectors incessantly choose their own for a sentimental reason like a birthday, a special anniversary or crucial day in history. On account of this, the paintings are incessantly given pride of place within a collection; in many cases they are situated in a place where the collector spends much of his or her time. All this being said, Kawara is widely regarded as some of the important artists of the postwar era, and his work may also be found in among the most significant private collections on the planet–among them Friedrich Christian Flick’s, Leonard and Luise Riggio’s, David and Monica Zwirner’s, Kasper König’s, Jutta Linthe and Walther König’s, Thomas Struth’s and Yvon Lambert’s. Thus Hofer’s photographs capture the paintings in very good company, both when it comes to their artistic companions and of the overall aesthetics of the spaces they inhabit.

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