"This exhibition marks the first full museum overview of the work produced by On Kawara after 1963.

On Kawara, the artist who lives in New York, has produced since the sixties the most extreme reductionist works of contemporary art.

This was the last project that the artist collaborated on, together with the museum curator and the editor of this book, Tommy Simoens, before his death in 2014.

Since then he has been painting the date according to the same procedure at regular intervals in the city where he happened to be. This is the first time that On Kawara presents a retrospective of forty-five years of date paintings.

A meditation on one of the world's best-known Conceptual artists.

A journey of grace for those who are ill .

" ... Photographer Candida Höfer travelled through Asia, America and Europe between 2004 and 2007 to take pictures of On Kawaras Date Paintings in the spaces of private collectors. On Kawara created his famous Date Paintings from 1960 on.

"Artists on On Kawara is the fifth volume in a series that takes as its starting point Dia Art Foundation's Artists on Artists lectures.

Eternal Return documents On Kawara's Today Series, an ongoing project begun in 1966, a series of paintings, each made in a day, bearing the inscribed date on which they were made. Text by Jonathan Watkins.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019."