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One Million Years (Box set) #51-62

On Kawara - One Million Years (Box set) #51-62
Reading of One Million Years, from Past and Future 51 (978 482 BC – 978 001 BC / 23 642 AD – 24 100 AD) to Past and Future 62 (973 378 BC – 972 888 BC / 28 632 AD – 29 120 AD), by male and female voices (250 copies limited edition wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs).
Readings by Jacques Roubaud and Martine Aboucaya, Rafael Lain and Angela Detanico, Aldo Caredda and Agnès Cazorla, Marc Partouche and Alix Lebon, Laurent Laclos and Stéphanie Ditche, Jacinto Lageira and Mona Owen, Franz Guizerix and Déborah Savoret, Christian Boltanski and Marylène Negro, Mathieu Mendez and Isabelle Muheim, Jacques Jouet and Morgan Cros, Julien Discrit and Maïder Fortuné, François Sarhan and Jehanne Carillon.

See also One Million Years #69-70.
On Kawara (1932-2014) is arguably one of the most influential contemporary artist. Born in Japan, Kawara's first exhibitions include the first Nippon Exhibition, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, in 1953, and at the Takemiya and Hibiya galleries the following year. The art of this forerunner conceptual artist was first exhibited in New York—where he has lived since 1965—at Dwan Gallery in 1967, and his one-person exhibition “One Million Years” was shown in Düsseldorf, Paris, and Milan in 1971. Kawara's work was included in Kassel's Documentas 5 (1972), 7 (1982), and 11 (2002), in the Tokyo Biennale (1970), the Kyoto Biennale (1976), and the Venice Biennale (1976).
His work has been included in many conceptual art surveys from the seminal “Information show” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970), to “Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1995).
Personal exhibitions of his work have included the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1977); the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1980); Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1991); the Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993); the South London Gallery (2004); and the Dallas Museum of Art (2008).
Edited and produced by Martine Aboucaya, Paris.
 
published in 2008
15 x 13,5 x 26 cm
wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs
 
sold out
 
One Million Years (Box set)


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