On Kawara. I met

Lot 142
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Lot 142 | On Kawara. I met
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KAWARA, ON
1932 KARIYA/JAPAN - 2014 NEW YORK


Title: I met.
Subtitle: 1968 to 1979.
Date: 2004.
Technique: 12 book volumes in black card.
Measurement: Card: 23 x 55 x 17cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered (on the last page of the last volume).
Publisher: On Kawara und Editions Micheline Szwajcer & Michèle Didier (publisher).
Number: 7/10 A.P.


For each day from 1968 to 1979, the 12 volumes list every person On Kawara met on that day.

Outside the edition of 90 copies.

Provenance:
- Kasper König Collection, Berlin (directly from the artist)

- The 'I met' series was created because Kawara had difficulty memorising Western names
- He asked the people he met to write down their names or give him a business card
- Finally, he recorded the names in lists and notebooks.
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