On Kawara, the 81-year-old Japanese painter and conceptual artist whose fascination with human mortality was legend, has died, The Huffington Post has learned. The news -- first circulated on Twitter -- was confirmed by a representative of the David Zwirner Gallery. The gallery has represented the artist since 1999. Born in Japan, Kawara first exhibited in Tokyo in the early 1950s. Though he became known for his riddle-like abstractions, he started out quite differently. He was a teenager during...
On Kawara, the 81-year-old Japanese painter and conceptual artist whose fascination with human mortality was legend, has died, The Huffington Post has learned. The news -- first circulated on Twitter -- was confirmed by a representative of the David Zwirner Gallery. The gallery has represented the artist since 1999. Born in Japan, Kawara first exhibited in Tokyo in the early 1950s. Though he became known for his riddle-like abstractions, he started out quite differently. He was a teenager during...
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